Swarm Network Simulator
For the report, presentation, questions, or source code of the swarm simulation send me an email at: todd@toadywonders.com or tmwatson@umd.edu
Purpose: Simulate a self configuring swarm network and analyze its efficiency. (similar to an ad-hoc network)
Protocol: Each entity in the network makes a connection with the other entities within its range and relays a packet to all within range with which entities it knows.
Measuring network efficiency:
-Ideally all entities would have infinite range and could be directly connected to any entity
-As more entities are added the total distance and the number of “jumps” information must take increases exponentially.
-A network with entities in a smaller area is more efficient than a larger area.
-As the location of entities change data can be lost to entities becoming “out-of-range” as data is relayed across the network