VectorL: a macroprogramming language for testing wireless sensor network applicationsVectorL: a macroprogramming language for testing wireless sensor network applications Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή Master Thesis 2015-09-022015enWireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained world-wide attention in recent years and are expected to find wide applicability and increasing deployment in the near future. These networks are consisted of small sensors, with limited processing and computing resources. Thus, the considerable cost of deploying and maintaining large-scale WSNs for experimental purposes makes simulation a necessary phase of the application development cycle. Sensor node actions are triggered by the information they sense, measure and gather from the environment. Therefore, physical process modeling and simulation is an integral part of a realistic application simulation. Though, sensing is usually neglected in WSN simulators. The usual practice is to feed random numbers to nodes or each node to have a static value. The purpose of this master thesis is to introduce VectorL, a high-level domain-specific language designed to serve the need for an effective and simple way to model and simulate external environment in order to produce realistic sensor readings. Another great advantage of VectorL is that it can be used, not only during simulation phase, but also during wsn testing phase, inside the motes.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης::Σχολή Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών ΥπολογιστώνAsimoglou_Aikaterini_MSc_2015.pdfChania [Greece]Library of TUC2015-09-02application/pdf2.9 MBfree Asimoglou Aikaterini Ασημογλου Αικατερινη Samoladas Vasilis Σαμολαδας Βασιλης Deligiannakis Antonios Δεληγιαννακης Αντωνιος Garofalakis Minos Γαροφαλακης Μινως Technical University of Crete Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης WSNs (Sensor networks) wireless sensor networks wsns sensor networks