Simulation Environment for Autonomic Cooperative Networking in Indoor Scenario

This paper presents the description of a simulation environment developed for the purposes of the evaluation of the performance of autonomic cooperative networking. The work is done in context of emergency communications and a very specific scenario of an indoor type is applied being sufficiently well tailored to the needs of showing the necessity for the incorporation of the investigated concepts. The context of emergency communications, in fact, allows for an analysis of dynamic network set-ups where the system needs to provide best possible communication capabilities in the area of incident. For this reason, issues such as energy constraints and battery drainage play secondary role, allowing for the development of way more advanced concepts as compared to commercial networked systems.