COOJA SIMULATOR INSTALLATION IN UBUNTU

Cooja is a java-based wireless sensor network simulator distributed with Contiki.

Prior to the installation:

Check if Git, ant are installed if not use the below code for installation

for git installation:

sudo apt-get install git

for ant installation:

sudo apt-get install ant

Now setting up Cooja Simulator

Step 1: Cooja supports only if Java 8 exists because it requires java.xml.bind module. In the higher version it does not exists(removed).

Use the below code to install Java 8

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
Step 2:

Set environment variables for java and point them to location where java is installed.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
export PATH=${PATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/bin

Check whether java8 is installed or not by using below command

java -version

Step 3:

Clone ContikiOS from github into any directory using command :

git clone git://github.com/contiki-os/contiki.git contiki

After cloning contiki we have to download mspsim To download this get into desired cooja folder : contiki/tools/cooja and download sub-module code for MSPSim using command :

git submodule update -- init

then

sudo apt install gcc-msp430


Step 4:

Run Cooja

From contiki/tools/cooja directory, run command

ant run