Hello, guys.
I have to simulate different types of IoT networks and connect them together.
At the first stage, I have to simulate these networks:
1) A group of nodes which are by Zigbee.
2) A group of nodes which are connected by MQTT.
3) A group of sensors which are routed by RPL
4) A group of sensors and nodes which are routed by 6LoWPAN.
At the second stage, I have to connect these four types of networks together by a router which has to be able to run BGP protocol.
Do you have any ideas for how to simulate this? I know I have to use various types of simulation like Cooja, Opnet, NS3 and so on. But don't know which ones are the best to simulate with it.
The free simulators that you have available can be Omnet, Ns3 or Cooja
Cooja support 6LowPan and RPL, but BGP and routers aren't supported.
Ns3 doesn't include RPL, and omnet doesn't include 6LowPan
There is an alternative to integrate Contiki with omnet, but it is based in an old version of inet-framwork, in this case you can have all that you need, but it will need quite work if you want that it could work with inet-framework 4.
Netsim has all that you need, the only drawback is that is a privative simulator.
Firstly you need to understand that you have written are on different layers of the stack
Zigbee - MAC / PHY
RPL - L3
MQTT - App Layer
6LOWPAN - L3 / MAC / PHY
You need to decide on the entire stack in each of these four networks.
Secondly, you would need to run BGP between them, OSPF would be sufficient.
And finally, you need to decide on the traffic flows - at what rate and from where to where
@sia R N
I would add some sensors which will be connected in IEEE 802.15.4 and they would routed by RPL.
MQTT is also available in Mac Layer.
I have to use bgp, because I have some codes for bgp protocol.
About traffic flow, they all should be connected together and at final step, they should send their data to a server which collect them.
Your question is really confused.
RPL and IEEE 802.15.4 can work together, you can have a network with RPL in the network layer and 15.4 at the link layer, and 6LowPan usually uses 15.4, and MQTT works at the application layer, the lower layers are transparent, it can be a network with RPL, 6LowPan and 802.15.4 and, if you use MQTT, the rest of nodes must use also MQTT to communicate because is an application protocol.
Alfonso Ariza Quintana I think I should recheck my scenario.
What if I want to have a network with RPL and 6LowPan and connect it to a router which can support BGP? which simulation or emulator you recommend to use?
I would recommend NetSim, which is full stack end-to-end simulation. You can see the IOT stack it supports at https://tetcos.com/iot-wsn.html
@abhishek Tayal
Wow, that's can help a lot.
But can we simulate multiple cisco router in netsim?
The free simulators that you have available can be Omnet, Ns3 or Cooja
Cooja support 6LowPan and RPL, but BGP and routers aren't supported.
Ns3 doesn't include RPL, and omnet doesn't include 6LowPan
There is an alternative to integrate Contiki with omnet, but it is based in an old version of inet-framwork, in this case you can have all that you need, but it will need quite work if you want that it could work with inet-framework 4.
Netsim has all that you need, the only drawback is that is a privative simulator.
Finally, I figured out that the cost of Netsim is about 2000$, depends on lots of things.
So, I decided to run this project by real devices. Although it would be more challenging, it's so intriguing for me to run it for real.
If you have experienced NetLogo multi agent programming, use this open source simulator:
http://modelingcommons.org/browse/one_model/3991#model_tabs_browse_info
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