ESDS: An Extensible Simulator For Distributed Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems

What is ESDS ?

It is a short learning curve and coarse-grain simulator for distributed systems. ESDS contains the building blocks for the simulation of Distributed Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) etc. It is designed to improve the flexibility/faithfulness of nodes implementations and mitigate the learning curve compare to existing simulators.

ESDS is part of a research project. Studies and validation experiments are available online. For more details please visit http://todo.com.

Installation

> pip install esds

To ensure that esds is properly working and installed on your system, you can run the simulation tests with one of the following scripts:

• tests/run.sh
• tests/run.py

Features

• Easy to use
• Small API
• Agent-based: node implementations are located in dedicated python files
• Wireless interferences detection (i.e not modelization)
• Node mobility (by updating the network matrices)
• Nodes plugins (e.g: energy consumption)

What ESDS does not implements ?

• Network protocols (e.g IP/TCP/UDP)
• Wireless physical layer models (e.g: Friis and Log-Distance models, modulation, RSSI)
• Routing algorithms (e.g: Shortest path)
• And much more!

Simulation API

• api.args
• api.send(<int>,<data>,<size>,<dst>)
• api.sendt(<int>,<data>,<size>,<dst>,<t>)
• api.receive(<int>)
• api.receivet(<int>,<t>)
• api.wait(<t>)
• api.wait_end()
• api.log(<message>)
• api.read(<register>)
• api.turn_on()
• api.turn_off()
• More details on the API in example/sender.py

Documentation

The documentation of ESDS is available in the user manual.