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Automated Construction of Fast and Accurate System-Level Models For Wireless Sensor Networks Lan S. Bai† Robert P. Dick† Pai H. Chou‡ Peter A. Dinda* {lanbai, dickrp}@ phchou@ pdinda@ †University of Michigan ‡University of California, Irvine *Northwestern University Abstract—Rapidly and accurately estimating the impact of design performance metrics for a prospective design. However, such models decisions on performance metrics is critical to both the manual and are less accurate than measurement or simulation because simplifying automated design of wireless sensor networks. Estimating system-level assumptions must be made in their construction, particularly in performance metrics such as lifetime, data loss rate, and network connectivity is particularly challenging because they depend on many regards to network and environment behavior. factors, including network design and structure, hardware characteristics, We have developed a technique for the automated construction communication protocols, and node reliability. This paper describes a of fast and accurate models for estimating system-level sensor net- new method for automatically building efficient and accurate predictive work performance metrics. Our technique combines the accuracy models for a wide range of system-level performance metrics. These models can be used to eliminate or reduce the need for simulation of simulation-based approaches with the rapid evaluation time of during design space exploration. We evaluate our method by building