Overview of Toolkit
A simulation toolkit visualizes the structure of wireless sensor networks using key predistribution. The toolkit implements a variety of key pre-distribution schemes, and allows for significant variations in network and security parameters. Many attack heuristics can be utilized, and the effects can be qualitatively visualized and quantitatively measured on the network. A snap shot of the toolkit is shown below.
The system requirements for installing and running the toolkit are minimal. It was written in Java, so the functionality is platform-independent. In order to run the executable (.jar) version of the toolkit, only the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required. The JRE can be downloaded from http://www.java.com/getjava/. In order to run the toolkit from the java source, a Java IDE such as Netbeans (http://www.netbeans.org) or Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) is recommended.