Software-In-Loop Simulation of an Underwater Wireless Sensor Network for Monitoring Seawater Quality: Parameter Selection and Performance Validation
Alberto Clavijo-Rodriguez,
Victor Alonso-Eugenio,
Santiago Zazo,
Ivan Perez-Alvarez
Affiliations
Alberto Clavijo-Rodriguez
Information Processing and Telecommunications Center, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Av Complutense 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Victor Alonso-Eugenio
Instituto para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación en Comunicaciones (IDeTIC), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), 35017 Las Palmas, Spain
Santiago Zazo
Information Processing and Telecommunications Center, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Av Complutense 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Ivan Perez-Alvarez
Instituto para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación en Comunicaciones (IDeTIC), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), 35017 Las Palmas, Spain
In this work, a real-time software-in-loop simulation technique was employed to test and analyse an underwater wireless sensor network. This simulation should facilitate the deployment of the real network and helps guarantee the network’s expected behaviour. We study duplicated packets, one-way delay, and power consumption to analyse the network’s leading parameters. Evaluating production-ready software in simulated conditions eases effective deployment. This method will ultimately allow us to establish these parameters, test the software before the deployment, and have an excellent understanding of the network’s behaviour.
