COOJA/MSPSim: Interoperability Testing for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks are moving towards emerging standards such as IP, ZigBee and WirelessHART which makes interoperability testing important. Interoperability testing is performed today through black-box testing with vendors physically meeting to test their equipment. Black-box testing can test interoperability but gives no detailed information of the internals in the nodes during the testing. Blackbox testing is required because existing simulators cannot simultaneously simulate sensor nodes with different firmware. For standards such as IP and WirelessHART, a white-box interoperability testing approach is desired, since it gives details on both performance and clues about why tests succeeded or failed.