500 Simulation Technologies in Networking and Communications
Simulation is a powerful technique that can be used at several stages of system development
and thus can be a better choice, but some limitations are also associated with simulation as well.
The limitations of simulation are discussed in research contributions [11,12]. As per the authors of
another research contribution [3], simulation suffers greatly from the poor accuracy of implemented
simulation models and protocols and has very low reusability in general (especially general use
network simulators) and the results gathered on one simulator are hardly comparable to the results
from others. Also, as per the authors of the same research paper [3], the major disadvantage of WSN