Agent based platform for the design and simulation of wireless sensor networks

Abstract

In this work we propose a flexible, generic and agent based platform for the design and simulation of wireless sensor networks (WSN) protocols and applications. This platform is independent from the physical architecture of nodes, where each node is considered as an autonomous agent having its own properties and behaviors according to the role it takes in the network. Once the description of the WSN is done using agent models, we can translate them to the simulation environment or directly to the physical network architecture using a translation library witch makes the correspondence between agent models and the target environment. To validate our work, we have extended OMNeT++ with new models for WSN and implemented some functions that translate automatically the agent models of the WSN nodes to OMNeT++ source code.