Using Transaction Level Modeling techniques for wireless sensor network simulation

Damm,; Moreno,; Haase, Jan; Grimm,

doi:10.1109/date.2010.5456964

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“…A sensor node transmits or receives a data packet to or from an environment model by transaction exchanges. The SNOPS framework [78] requires 49.7% less simulation time than PAWiS [48].…”

Section: Node System Simulator With Network Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Modeling and simulation of networked low-power embedded systems: a taxonomy

Mieyeville

Navarro

et al. 2014

J Wireless Com Network

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Simulation has been widely adopted for the evaluation of novel protocols or other designs for networked low-power embedded systems, especially for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A large number of simulation tools have been developed for WSNs in the past few years. However, different tools may emphasize on different features. For example, general network simulators mainly focus on the high-level performance evaluation with certain assumptions, while some SystemC-based simulators have been developed recently to realize the hardware and software co-design of sensor node at the system level. Therefore, it is necessary to study the different modeling methodologies and to distinguish the various features of the existing WSN simulators. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy that categorizes the existing simulation tools into four groups, i.e., network simulators with node models, network simulators with node emulators, node system simulator with network models, and node emulators with network models. To demonstrate the rationality and usability of the proposed taxonomy, we use it to conduct a survey of the existing simulation tools. This study is intended to be comprehensive to cover all important simulation tools.

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“…A sensor node transmits or receives a data packet to or from an environment model by transaction exchanges. The SNOPS framework [78] requires 49.7% less simulation time than PAWiS [48].…”

Section: Node System Simulator With Network Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The SNOPS framework [78] is another TLM-based WSN simulator. A sensor node transmits or receives a data packet to or from an environment model by transaction exchanges.…”

Section: Node System Simulator With Network Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling and simulation of networked low-power embedded systems: a taxonomy

Mieyeville

Navarro

et al. 2014

J Wireless Com Network

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“…A sensor node transmits or receives a data packet to or from an environment model by transaction exchanges. In [7], it is proved that the SNOPS framework requires 49.7% less simulation time than PAWiS [20]. ATLeS-SN (Arizona Transaction-Level Simulator for Sensor Network) [6] is another TLM-based sensor network simulation environment developed in SystemC.…”

Section: Node Simulatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, only a behavior waveform of media access control (MAC) layer (states of the sending and receiving tasks) has been presented in [5]. The SNOPS framework [7] is a transaction-level modeling (TLM)-based WSN simulator. A sensor node transmits or receives a data packet to or from an environment model by transaction exchanges.…”

Section: Node Simulatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It can model the embedded system at different abstraction level and allow designers to focus on the system functionalities by hiding the unnecessary details of communication and computation. Four SystemC-based WSN simulators [4][5][6][7] have been developed; however, none of them has been validated with experimental measurements or evaluated comprehensively by comparing with other simulators.…”

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IDEA1: A validated SystemC-based system-level design and simulation environment for wireless sensor networks

Mieyeville

Navarro

et al. 2011

J Wireless Com Network

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This article presents IDEA1, a SystemC-based system-level design and simulation framework for WSNs. It allows the performance evaluation (e.g., packet delivery rate, transmission latency and energy consumption) at high level, but with elaborate models of the hardware and software of sensor nodes. Many hardware components are modeled and the IEEE 802.15.4 standard is implemented. IDEA1 uses a clock-based synchronization mechanism to support simulations with cycle accurate communication and approximate time computation. The simulation results have been validated by a testbed of 9 nodes. The average deviation between the IDEA1 simulations and experimental measurements is 4.6%. The performances of IDEA1 have also been compared with NS-2. To provide a similar result (deviation less than 5%) at the same abstraction level, the simulation of IDEA1 is 2 times faster than NS-2. Moreover, with the hardware and software co-simulation feature, IDEA1 provides more detailed modeling of sensor nodes. Finally, IDEA1 is used to study a real-time industrial application in which a wireless sensor and actuator network is deployed on a vehicle to measure and control vibrations. By the simulation, some preliminary designs based on IEEE 802.15.4 protocols and two different hardware platforms are evaluated.

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Power domain management interface: flexible protocol interface for transaction‐level power domain management

Mbarek

Pégatoquet

Auguin

2013

IET Computers & Digital Techniques

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Defining a power management solution for a system-on-chip imposes the design of a low power architecture composed of multiple power domains and a power management strategy for power domain state control. If these two elements are energyefficient, an energy-efficient power management solution can be obtained. Transaction-level of modelling allows a rapid exploration of different power management solutions, hence a fast decision-making of the most energy-efficient one. The authors' previous work proposed an abstraction of the unified power format (UPF) standard semantics to enable fast evaluation of different UPF-like power architectures at transaction-level (TL). However, a fast evaluation of different power domain management strategies requires a unique and flexible hardware interface to organise transfers of inter-power-domain transactions according to a well-defined protocol. The proposal of a new hardware protocol interface for power domain state management, called power domain management interface (PDMgIF), and its TL simulation model represents the main contribution of this study. This proposal separates functional and power management communications. It represents a potential extension of existing low power standards (such as UPF) that already miss power domain management semantics. The PDMgIF concepts are demonstrated through an audio application TL platform illustrating a high flexibility and reduced overhead of the TL PDMgIF model.

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Using Transaction Level Modeling techniques for wireless sensor network simulation

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Modeling and simulation of networked low-power embedded systems: a taxonomy

Modeling and simulation of networked low-power embedded systems: a taxonomy

IDEA1: A validated SystemC-based system-level design and simulation environment for wireless sensor networks

Power domain management interface: flexible protocol interface for transaction‐level power domain management

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