RealSim: Real-time Mapping of Real World Sensor Deployments into Simulation Scenarios

Strübe M, Böhm S, Kapitza R, Dressler F (2011)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2011

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Pages Range: 95-96

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 6th ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization (WiNTECH '11)

Event location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

ISBN: 978-1-4503-0867-0

URI: http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Publications/2011/struebe_11_mobicom.pdf

DOI: 10.1145/2030718.2030740

Abstract

We present an approach to improve simulation results by automatically mapping the network topology of real wireless networks into a simulation environment. We basically target two problem domains: First, simulations are often used with rather arbitrary configurations, i.e., the used settings may strongly deviate from realistic setups. Secondly, and as our key motivation, we aim to use the simulator to experiment with different algorithms and settings in parallel to an existing sensor network installation. That means that we want to exactly rebuild the real network in order to estimate the performance of our new settings before deploying them into the network. In our demo, we show that not only the physical environment influences the propagation of radio waves, but also the hardware. These changes are incorporated in realtime into our simulator. Even though the reasons for the strong variations are out of the scope, the consequences for the sensor network are significant. © 2011 Authors.

Authors with CRIS profile

Moritz Strübe Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4 (Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme) Rüdiger Kapitza Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4 (Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme)

Related research project(s)

Adaptive Responsive Embedded Systems (ESI 2) (ARES) ESI-Anwendungszentrum für die digitale Automatisierung, den digitalen Sport und die Automobilsensorik der Zukunft Jan. 1, 2010 - Dec. 31, 2018

Involved external institutions

Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck / University of Innsbruck AT Austria (AT)

How to cite

APA:

Strübe, M., Böhm, S., Kapitza, R., & Dressler, F. (2011). RealSim: Real-time Mapping of Real World Sensor Deployments into Simulation Scenarios. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization (WiNTECH '11) (pp. 95-96). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

MLA:

Strübe, Moritz, et al. "RealSim: Real-time Mapping of Real World Sensor Deployments into Simulation Scenarios." Proceedings of the The Sixth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and Characterization, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 2011. 95-96.

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