A survey of simulators, emulators and testbeds for wireless sensor networks

Proceedings 2010 International Symposium on Information Technology - Engineering Technology, ITSim'10

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 897-902

  Imran, Muhammad ^a   Said, Abas Md ^a   Hasbullah, Halabi ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Emulators; Performance evaluation; Physical testbed; Simulators; Wireless Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM VALIDATION; EMULATORS; INTEGRATED TOOLS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE TESTING; PHYSICAL TESTBEDS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RESEARCH ISSUES; WIRELESS SENSOR;

COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SIMULATORS; SURVEYS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78049412354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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