A Simulator and Integrated Development Platform for Sensor Networks Applications
SIDnet is an exploratory-design environment for various aspects of applications of wireless sensor networks. It was made to provide a simulation and proof-of-concept platform in which the end-users, the application/protocol developers and various phenomena monitored by that network interact in a seamless manner. SIDnet is a Java-based visual tool designed to promote run-time interactions with the network. End-users can observe the behavior of newly designed algorithms in the presence of various phenomena fluctuations like, for example, a sudden loss of service both at an individual node, as well as a collection of nodes in a certain area of the network; unexpected increase/decrease in the measurement values; changes in the (network) load/traffic; etc. User can pose queries using graphical tools that are synchronized with with the textual ones providing a TinySQL-like primitives. In addition, at run-time (through built-in terminals) the simulation can be fast-forwarded or paused, as needed. SIDnet incorporates a complete graphical user interface package built on top of the JiST-SWANS simulator which, in turn, guarantees the validity of the performance and other observations of a particular simulation. It is an extensible tool with a well defined and easy to learn API, that the developers can use to integrate their novel implementations and, together with the end-users of the application, perform various hypothetical reasoning in any pre-deployment stage.
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