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The Dark Side Of DEMMON: What Is Behind The Scene In Engineering Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
Ref: HURRAY-TR-111208       Publication Date: 31, Oct to 4, Nov, 2011

The Dark Side Of DEMMON: What Is Behind The Scene In Engineering Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

Ref: HURRAY-TR-111208       Publication Date: 31, Oct to 4, Nov, 2011

Abstract:
Most research work on WSNs has focused on protocols or on specific applications. There is a clear lack of easy/ready-touse WSN technologies and tools for planning, implementing, testing and commissioning WSN systems in an integrated fashion. While there exists a plethora of papers about network planning and deployment methodologies, to the best of our knowledge none of them helps the designer to match coverage requirements with network performance evaluation. In this paper we aim at filling this gap by presenting an unified toolset, i.e., a framework able to provide a global picture of the system, from the network deployment planning to system test and validation. This toolset has been designed to back up the EMMON WSN system architecture for largescale, dense, real-time embedded monitoring. It includes network deployment planning, worst-case analysis and dimensioning, protocol simulation and automatic remote programming and hardware testing tools. This toolset has been paramount to validate the system architecture through DEMMON1, the first EMMON demonstrator, i.e., a 300+ node test-bed, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the largest single-site WSN test-bed in Europe to date.

Authors:
Stefano Tennina
,
Ricardo F. T. Gomes
,
Mário Alves
,
Vincenzo Ciriello
,
Gabriella Carrozza


14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM '11), ACM New York, pp 41-50.
Miami Beach, U.S.A..

DOI:10.1145/2068897.2068908.
WOS ID: 000304070700008.



Record Date: 10, Dec, 2011