AvroraZ enabling ieee 802.15.4 compliant emulation
AvroraZ, a research project of the Adaptive Wireless Systems (AWS) center, is an extension of the Avrora emulator. The AVR Simulation and Analysis Framework which allows the emulation of the Atmel AVR microcontroller based sensor node platforms with the IEEE 802.15.4 compliant cc2420 radio chip thus allowing emulation of sensor nodes such as Crossbow’s MicaZ
Avrora is a set of simulation and analysis tools for programswritten for the AVR microcontroller produced by Atmel and the Mica2 sensor nodes. Avrora contains a flexible framework for simulating and analysing assembly programs, providing a clean Java API and infrastructure for experimentation, profiling, and analysis. Its extension is based on design, implementation and verification of several add-ons: the address recognition algorithm, an indoor radio model, the clear channel assessment (CCA) and link quality indicator (LQI) of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The motivation of this implementation is to enable precise emulation of IEEE 802.15.4 based protocols without any modifications in the code developed for the real hardware.
The extension tool, which is called AvroraZ, has been tested with the implementation of beacon-enabled mode of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol stack developed in nesC, under the TinyOS operating system for the CrossBow MICAz motes called Open-zb.
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“Avrora contains a flexible framework for simulating and analysing assembly programs, providing a clean Java API and infrastructure for experimentation, profiling, and analysis. Its extension is based on design, implementation and verification of several add-ons: the address recognition algorithm, an indoor radio model, the clear channel assessment (CCA) and link quality indicator (LQI) of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The motivation of this implementation is to enable precise emulation of IEEE 802.15.4 based protocols without any modifications in the code developed for the real hardware.”
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