Shawn: A new approach to simulating wireless sensor networks

TL;DR

Shawn is an innovative open-source simulator designed for large-scale wireless sensor networks, uniquely supporting both high-level algorithms and distributed protocols on a unified platform.

Contribution

It introduces Shawn, a novel simulator that enables simulation of large-scale WSNs with support for generic algorithms and protocols on the same network model.

Findings

Supports large-scale network simulation efficiently

Allows testing of high-level algorithms and protocols together

Provides an open-source platform for WSN research

Abstract

We consider the simulation of wireless sensor networks (WSN) using a new approach. We present Shawn, an open-source discrete-event simulator that has considerable differences to all other existing simulators. Shawn is very powerful in simulating large scale networks with an abstract point of view. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first simulator to support generic high-level algorithms as well as distributed protocols on exactly the same underlying networks.