Abstract—Due to hardware resource constraints in WSN nodes, and lack of support for high-level development environments, application developers tend to avoid concurrent object-oriented models in designing WSN applications. In recent years due to new advances in microelectronics and embedded system design, there have been a number of attempts at manufacturing WSN node prototypes with resource-rich capabilities that enable running multiple applications on individual nodes or on groups of them collectively. However, generating realistic results for large-scale concurrent applications requires sophisticated simulation and debugging tools. In this paper we describe a novel simulation tool with multi-model execution environments that overcomes many complexities involved in simulating large-scale WSNs. SXCS, SensomaX Companion Simulator, is a standalone generic simulator particularly targeting agent-based architectures for densely distributed embedded systems. The proposed architecture, unlike many existing models, is not tied to any particular platform and can be fine-tuned through a set of powerful network APIs as well as being capable of hosting multiple highly dynamic virtual environments. It can also act as an emulator taking the entire middleware source code to replicate its core functionalities over a network of up to 2500 virtual nodes. An open-source release of SXCS is planned for later in 2013.
Index Terms—Agent-based, simulator, SXCS, sensomax, multi-operational, multi-application, concurrency
Mo Haghighi is with the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1UB, UK and Large-Scale Complex IT Systems (LSCITS) (e-mail: Mo.Haghighi@bristol.ac.uk).
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Cite:Mo Haghighi, "An Agent-Based Multi-Model Tool for Simulating Multiple Concurrent Applications in WSNs," Journal of Advances in Computer Networks vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 270-275, 2013.
