：无线多媒体传感器网络扩展了传统无线传感器网络的应用范围，延伸了人们感知世界的物理空间，其在军事、民

用、商业等诸多领域都具有十分广阔的应用前景。网络仿真技术作为传感器网络研究的基础，在这个快速发展的研究领

域逐步成为测试新网络应用与验证新协议算法的通用方法。无线多媒体传感器网络虽已成为当前研究热点，但适于其个

性特征的仿真实验工具仍然滞后。分析了无线传感器网络仿真技术，针对现有仿真实验工具的缺陷与不足，结合仿真无

线多媒体传感器网络时所遇到的新问题，提出了一种无线多媒体传感网络仿真器的设计方案，并给出了该方案关键部分

的实现框架。-As a special appficafion and extension of the traditional Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN)-Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks(

WMSNl expandhuman’shorizonto any physical spa~~．It has shownits potentialin awide specu-um frommilitarytoindustry。

from commercial to environmental monitoring and so on．Network simulation is fundamental to study sensor networks-and is being the

common way t0 test new applications and protocols in this evolving rcsearch field．The research of WMSN has become the hot issue。but

the development of simulation experimentaltoolsforWMSN islagging behind．Inthispaper，analyzed existing simulationtoolscompr~-

hensivelyandfoundthatthey have alot ofdeficienciesifⅡlcy arc usedforthe researches ofWMSN．A design of simulatorforW MSN is

proposedan d a solutionwitlIitsimplementationfr a mework isfitfor new features ofWMSN．

Key words：wireless multimedia sensor netw orks；network simulation；simulator