Running Real-World Software on Simulated Wireless Sensor Nodes

In the domain of wireless sensor networks, simulation is the predominant way of evaluating new algorithms. One commonly found drawback of simulation tools is that they provide a programming environment that does not match the one present on real-world platforms. In this paper, we address this problem by presenting the steps required to port an existing software stack to a popular network simulator. This novel procedure allows for applications to run both in the simulated environment and on realworld sensor nodes without any changes to the source code. We verify our results by means of performance analyses of several simulated applications