Citation
Elaine Cheong, Edward A. Lee, Yang Zhao. "Joint Modeling and Design of Wireless Networks and Sensor Node Software". Technical report, University of California, Berkeley, UCB/EECS-2006-150, April, 2006.

Abstract
We present Viptos (Visual Ptolemy and TinyOS), a joint modeling and design environment for wireless networks and sensor node software. Viptos is built on Ptolemy II, a graphical modeling and simulation environment for embedded systems, and TOSSIM, an interrupt-level discrete event simulator for homogeneous TinyOS networks. Viptos includes the full capabilities of VisualSense, a Ptolemy II environment that can model communication channels, networks, and non-TinyOS nodes. Viptos presents a major improvement over VisualSense by allowing developers to refine high-level wireless sensor network simulations down to real-code simulation and deployment, and adds much-needed capabilities to TOSSIM by allowing simulation of heterogeneous networks. Viptos provides a bridge between Ptolemy II and TOSSIM by providing interrupt-level simulation of actual TinyOS programs, with packet-level simulation of the network, while allowing the developer to use other models of computation available in Ptolemy II for modeling the physical environment and other parts of the system. This framework allows application developers to easily transition between high-level simulation of algorithms to low-level implementation, simulation, and deployment. In this paper, we discuss how we integrate the semantics of two different simulation systems. We show that the Viptos simulator performance scales linearly in the number of nodes, and even without aggressive performance tuning, can simulate moderately large, heterogeneous sensor networks effectively.

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  Elaine Cheong, Edward A. Lee, Yang Zhao. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/315.html"
  ><i>Joint Modeling and Design of Wireless Networks
  and Sensor Node Software</i></a>, Technical
  report,  University of California, Berkeley,
  UCB/EECS-2006-150, April, 2006.

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  Elaine Cheong, Edward A. Lee, Yang Zhao. "Joint
  Modeling and Design of Wireless Networks and Sensor Node
  Software". Technical report,  University of California,
  Berkeley, UCB/EECS-2006-150, April, 2006.

• BibTeX

  @techreport{CheongLeeZhao06_JointModelingDesignOfWirelessNetworksSensorNodeSoftware,
      author = {Elaine Cheong and Edward A. Lee and Yang Zhao},
      title = {Joint Modeling and Design of Wireless Networks and
                Sensor Node Software},
      institution = {University of California, Berkeley},
      number = {UCB/EECS-2006-150},
      month = {April},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {We present Viptos (Visual Ptolemy and TinyOS), a
                joint modeling and design environment for wireless
                networks and sensor node software. Viptos is built
                on Ptolemy II, a graphical modeling and simulation
                environment for embedded systems, and TOSSIM, an
                interrupt-level discrete event simulator for
                homogeneous TinyOS networks. Viptos includes the
                full capabilities of VisualSense, a Ptolemy II
                environment that can model communication channels,
                networks, and non-TinyOS nodes. Viptos presents a
                major improvement over VisualSense by allowing
                developers to refine high-level wireless sensor
                network simulations down to real-code simulation
                and deployment, and adds much-needed capabilities
                to TOSSIM by allowing simulation of heterogeneous
                networks. Viptos provides a bridge between Ptolemy
                II and TOSSIM by providing interrupt-level
                simulation of actual TinyOS programs, with
                packet-level simulation of the network, while
                allowing the developer to use other models of
                computation available in Ptolemy II for modeling
                the physical environment and other parts of the
                system. This framework allows application
                developers to easily transition between high-level
                simulation of algorithms to low-level
                implementation, simulation, and deployment. In
                this paper, we discuss how we integrate the
                semantics of two different simulation systems. We
                show that the Viptos simulator performance scales
                linearly in the number of nodes, and even without
                aggressive performance tuning, can simulate
                moderately large, heterogeneous sensor networks
                effectively.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/315.html}
  }
  

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