Software development for wireless sensor networks can be accomplished with dedicated operating systems such as Contiki or TinyOS. However, protocol design and verification as well as debugging is still challenging. On the other hand, high-level simulation environments, e.g., OMNeT++, allow convenient and rapid development, but the resulting code has to be re-implemented for a particular hardwar...

When designing simulation models, it is favourable to reuse existing models as far as possible to reduce the effort from the first idea to simulation results. Thanks to the OMNeT++ community, there are several toolboxes available covering a wide range of network communication protocols. However, it can be quite a daunting task to handle the build process when multiple existing simulation models...

In this paper, we introduce our Open Source tool-chain providing the parametrization, distributed execution, results post-processing and debugging for OMNeT++-based simulations. While the initial motivation of these tools has been the support of our simulation model of the Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) framework, it has been particularly designed with model-independence in mind. That is, i...

In recent years, many MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks have been proposed and most of them are evaluated using Matlab simulator and/or network simulators (OMNeT++, NS2, etc). However, most of them have a static behavior and few network simulations are available for adaptive protocols. Specially, in OMNeT++/MiXiM, there are few energyefficient MAC protocols for WSNs (B-MAC & L-MAC) and...

Simulation is an important tool for study, analysis, design and evaluation of real world systems that we are unable to experiment with directly. Due to complexity of Smart Grids communication systems, it is necessary to use advanced simulation systems with the aim of accelerate the development and implementation of Smart Grids. In this paper, an advanced simulation platform (based on OMNET++) f...

Anti-collision algorithms of active RFID system are studied and simulated by the OMNeT++ software. The active RFID system based on ZigBee RF module is analyzed firstly, which uses the anti-collision mechanism involving the CSMA/CA algorithm of IEEE 802.15.4 protocol. Given the IEEE 802.15.4 simulation framework and configurations on the OMNeT++ simulation platform, simulations and analyses abou...

The domain name system (DNS) is one of the core services in today’s network structures. In local and ad-hoc networks DNS is often enhanced or replaced by mDNS. As of yet, no simulation models for DNS and mDNS have been developed for INET/OMNeT++. We introduce DNS and mDNS simulation models for OMNeT++, which allow researchers to easily prototype and evaluate extensions for these protocols. In a...

We introduce the ongoing integration of Contiki’s uIP stack into the OMNeT++ port of the Network Simulation Cradle (NSC). The NSC utilizes code from real world stack implementations and allows for an accurate simulation and comparison of different TCP/IP stacks and a validation of thereby connected simulation models. uIP(v6) provides resourceconstrained devices with an RFC-compliant TCP/IP stac...