Building a test bed for simulation analysis for the internet of things

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) enables the mix between the physical and informational world. Physical objects will be able to see, hear, think together, share information and coordinate decisions, without human interference in a variety of domains. To enable this vision of IoT in large scale is expected of the equipment to be low-cost, mobile, power efficient, computational constrained, and wireless communication enabled. This project performs an extensive overview of the state-of-the-art in communication technologies for IoT, simulation theory and tools. It also describes test bed for IoT simulation and its implementation. The simulation was built with Castalia Simulator (i.e. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) network) and INET framework (i.e. IP network), both extends OMNeT++ features. There are two independent networks that communicate through files and exchange information about source, destination, payload and simulation time. Analyzing the outputs is possible to assure that the routing protocol that is provided in the Castalia Simulator does not provide any advantage in terms of packets loss, packets reception or energy consumption.