[BFFM08]
A. Boulis, A. Fehnker, M. Fruth and A. McIver.
CaVi: Simulation and Model Checking for Wireless Sensor Networks.
In Proc. 5th International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2008), pages 37--38, IEEE CS Press.
2008.
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Abstract.
CaVi provides a uniform interface to state-of-the-art simulation
methods and formal verification methods for wireless
sensor network. Simulation is suitable to examine
the behavior of a wireless sensor network in great detail.
Due to the probabilistic behavior of these systems, however,
the simulation covers only a small fraction of all possible
behaviors. Formal model checking techniques, based on
Markov Decision Processes, use less detailed and more abstract
models and compute exact probabilities and expected
values for the entire behavior, where simulation can only
give averages. CaVi allows for creating a single model for
simulation, Monte-Carlo simulation, and model checking.
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