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An Analysis of Programming and Simulations in Sensor Networks Tanveer Zia, Albert Zomaya School of Information Technologies University of Sydney Madsen Building F09, Camperdown NSW 2006 Email: {tanzia, zomaya}@.au ABSTRACT which are popular due to their tiny architecture, open source development and commercial Recent advancements in micro electro mechanical availability. Table 1 shows the specifications of a systems (MEMS) and wireless communications have typical MICA and MICA2 motes. made possible the developments of low cost sensor networks. Applications of sensor networks are broad Table 1 – MICA and MICA2 specification from domestic applications to battlefield. Due to Mote type MICA MICA 2 sensors nature of limited energy, limited memory and Chip ATmega103L ATmega128L very small computing power there are significant challenges in its design, programming and simulations. Type 4 MHz, 8 bit 8Mhz, 8 bit This paper explores the existing programming and simulation environments in sensor networks and Program 128KB 128KB demonstrates Berkeley’s TinyOS and TOSSIMs Memory outcomes to address these cha