6TiSCH-AnyCast

Scope

6TiSCH is an IETF standardization working group that defines a complete protocol stack for ultra reliable ultra low-power wireless mesh networks. This simulator implements the 6TiSCH protocol stack, exactly as it is standardized. It allows you to measure the performance of a 6TiSCH network under different conditions.

Simulated protocol stack

RFC6550, RFC6552	RPL, non-storing mode, OF0
RFC6206	Trickle Algorithm
draft-ietf-6lo-minimal-fragment-07	6LoWPAN Fragment Forwarding
RFC6282, RFC4944	6LoWPAN Fragmentation
draft-ietf-6tisch-msf-10	6TiSCH Minimal Scheduling Function (MSF)
draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-security-15	Constrained Join Protocol (CoJP) for 6TiSCH
RFC8480	6TiSCH 6top Protocol (6P)
RFC8180	Minimal 6TiSCH Configuration
IEEE802.15.4-2015	IEEE802.15.4 TSCH

• connectivity models
  • Pister-hack
  • k7: trace-based connectivity
• miscellaneous
  • Energy Consumption model taken from
    • A Realistic Energy Consumption Model for TSCH Networks. Xavier Vilajosana, Qin Wang, Fabien Chraim, Thomas Watteyne, Tengfei Chang, Kris Pister. IEEE Sensors, Vol. 14, No. 2, February 2014.

Installation

• Install Python 2.7 (or Python 3)
• Clone or download this repository
• To plot the graphs, you need Matplotlib and scipy. On Windows, Anaconda (http://continuum.io/downloads) is a good one-stop-shop.

While 6TiSCH Simulator has been tested with Python 2.7, it should work with Python 3 as well.

Getting Started

1. Download the code:

   $ git clone https://bitbucket.org/6tisch/simulator.git
   

2. Install the Python dependencies: cd simulator and pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Replace the files in this repository with files of the same name
4. Execute runSim.py or start the GUI:
   • runSim.py

     $ cd bin
     $ python runSim.py
     

     • a new directory having the timestamp value as its name is created under bin/simData/ (e.g., bin/simData/20181203-161254-775)
     • raw output data and raw charts are stored in the newly created directory