Macro Agent Transport Event-based Simulator
From Evan Sultanik
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In developing the SWAT, I experienced firsthand numerous problems that arise from working with agents on live wireless networks. Hardware failures and system misconfiguration can cost valuable research time. While testing systems like my distributed service discovery algorithm in the real world is possible, it is almost always prohibitively expensive in terms of hardware and manpower. A single eight node mobile ad-hoc network experiment usually requires a dozen people for the better part of a day, resulting in a single data point. At the time, the SWAT was one of (if no the only) fully functioning mobile ad-hoc network testbed, so any real-world data produced will be hard, if not impossible, to be reproduced by a third party. Instrumenting live systems to collect the requisite data is far more complex (and error-prone) than performing the equivalent in simulation. What was needed was a testbed in which my models of the real world could be employed to simulate these same experiments in parallel. To address this need I created the Macro Agent Transport Event-based Simulator (MATES).
I wrote a book chapter on MATES which you can read here.