TY - CHAP A1 - Böhm, Sebastian A1 - Kirsche, Michael ED - Baum, Marcus ED - Brenner, Gunther ED - Grabowski, Jens ED - Hanschke, Thomas ED - Hartmann, Stefan ED - Schöbel, Anita T1 - Unifying Radio-in-the-Loop Channel Emulation and Network Protocol Simulation to Improve Wireless Sensor Network Evaluation T2 - Simulation Science, First International Workshop, SimScience 2017, Göttingen, Germany, April 27–28, 2017 N2 - Evaluations of Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications demonstrate the significant and still existing gap between examinations with generic simulation environments and real-life (e.g., field test) or controlled (e.g., testbed) sensor network deployments in terms of realistic and accurate results. The separated use of single examination approaches is often not enough to overcome all evaluation challenges. We therefore propose a combination of discrete-event simulation, radio-channel emulation, and real hardware working together on different layers of the protocol stack of the system-under-test. Our combined approach reduces the gap between abstract simulations and network testbed experiments by providing adjustable radio conditions for repeatable evaluations of WSN and IoT networks. KW - Hardware-in-the-Loop KW - Simulation KW - Emulation KW - Wireless Sensor Network KW - Co-Simulation Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-96271-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96271-9_14 SP - 219 EP - 238 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ER -