A New Analytical Simulator for the Provisioning Stage of IoT-based WSNs

With IoT devices becoming abundant and WSN applications becoming evermore present, the once dream of ubiquitous connectivity is closer to realization than ever before. but this realization is hindered by many technical problems and lengthy time to markets. Currently, our best practice of feasibility analysis relies in the same simulators used to model and develop the network applications. Because of their broad range and immense usability challenges, these jack-of-all-trades simulators tend to be computation-intensive and hard to work with.Here, we propose a relatively light-weight simulator based on the analytical models of different parts of the network to aid in rapid development and ease the provisioning stage. This simulator, presently implemented in MATLAB is compared against the defacto Cooja simulator to validate its functionality, specially for feasibility analysis which lies at the beginning of most deployments.