Driven by the need of robust, cost-effective, and ready-to-use solutions to connect wirelessly thousands to million of nodes, an increasing number of applications such as Smart Grids and IoT networks use large-scale Wireless Mesh Networks as transmission support. Tools and methodologies to study the performance of such systems are constantly sought and, in particular, they become fundamental in the feasibility assessment of the high number of possible applications.
This simulation tool is proposed to study the performance of a particular kind of wireless mesh networks, based on the RF-mesh technology. The tool was used in the context of a large-scale Smart Grid AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) system. The modular nature of the implemented tool allows a smooth extension to the performance analysis of other types of Wireless Mesh Networks using technologies similar to RF-mesh. The tool, coded in Java, considers different types of traffic and provides the packet collision probability, the end-to-end delay, and several other performance indexes of large scale (i.e., up to 6 thousand nodes) instances in a reasonable time.
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In order to install the simulator, follow the installation's instructions inside the README.md corresponding to your operating system.
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NOTE: since the simulator is a JAVA program, you will need JAVA installed on your computer. (Install it here)
All of the following releases have their own README.md with specific instructions
Windows : Release for Windows inside release_windows.
Linux distributions : Release for Linux distributions inside release_linux.
MAC OSX : Release for MAC OSX inside release_mac-OSX.