On Efficient Scheduling Schemes in Multiagent Wireless Sensor Networks Simulation Systems

Time notion is of paramount importance in a simulation process. What, how and when an event takes place in the simulation environment describes what how and when an event should take place in the real world and vice versa. The simulation tool of choice should provide the ability to minimize or even completely remove assumptions and operate with the highest time and synchronization accuracy as well as to minimize overheads of time management. In this paper we describe proper scheduling schemes that our proposed multiagent based WSN simulation system provides in order to handle time, and we evaluate the performance of the time controller in terms of agent population, synchronization and execution scenarios.