LinkBench: Benchmark and metric framework for wireless sensor networks

In wireless sensor research a benchmarking environment where multiple platforms, network topologies, and commu nication protocols with changing parameters can be easily described, tested and evaluated under different circumstan ces in a controlled and reproducible way would be a swiss army knife in one's hand. Such an environment could reveal the effectiveness or the bottleneck of networks and proto cols, could act as software metrics or basic feature sets for comparisons of MAC layers.