Table 1.

Survey of simulators.

Simulator	Traffic Generation	Real SW Code Support	HW Platform	OS Support	Power Consumption	Security Measure	Limitations
NS-2 (The Network Simulator)	Traffic patterns	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	No real traffic
NS-3	Traffic patterns	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	No real traffic
TOSSIM	Statically or Dynamically	Only TinyOS	NO	TinyOS	With PowerTOSSIM	NO	Only for TinyOS code
UWSim	Dynamically	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO	Only for Under Water networks
Avrora	Real	YES	Limited	NO	YES	NO	Only for Mica2 sensor nodes
Castalia	Real	YES	NO	NO	YES	NO	Not a sensor specific platform.
GloMoSim	Statistical	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	Statistical traffic, no energy models
Shawn	Not real	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	No real traffic
J-Sim	Not real	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	Low efficiency. No real traffic
Prowler	Probabilistic	NO	MICA (AVR) Mote	TinyOS	NO	NO	Probabilistic traffic.
ATEMU	Real	YES	AVR processor based systems	TinyOS	YES	NO	Only for AVR processor based systems
OMNeT++	Events	NO	YES With extension	NO	YES	NO	Slow. No real SW code
COOJA	Real	YES	YES	Contiki OS	YES	NO	Low efficiency. Limited number of simultaneous node types.
Proposed Simulator	Real	YES	YES	Multiple	YES	YES