Performance and scalability evaluation of the Castalia wireless sensor network simulator

SIMUTools 2010 - 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Pediaditakis, Dimosthenis ^a   Tselishchev, Yuri ^b   Boulis, Athanassios ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Castalia; Network; Performance; Scalability; Sensor; Simulator; Wireless; WSN

Indexed keywords

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RADIO; SCALABILITY; SENSORS; SIMULATORS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; CASTALIA; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITIES; PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK SIMULATORS; WSN;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84922927891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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