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Previous chapters describe sensor network architecture, communication protocols and various characteristics related to security of WSNs.

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    Since October 2012, the simulator is owned by Riverbed [40].

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Selmic, R.R., Phoha, V.V., Serwadda, A. (2016). WSN Platforms. In: Wireless Sensor Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46769-6_8

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