Cellular Automata for Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Matlab Stavros Athanassopoulos, Christos Kaklamanis, Gerasimos Kalfountzos and Evi Papaioannou Abstract We use cellular automata for simulating topology control algorithms in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) using the Matlab programming environment. Our objective has been to provide experimental evidence in order to (i) investigate whether potential researchers who lack sound programming skills but would like to promptly implement their ideas with confidence should use cellular automata rules and Matlab in order to experimentally evaluate their works and (ii) evaluate how the selection of a Moore or a Margolus neighborhood in cellular automata models can affect the performance of simulations of topology control algorithms in WSN. Keywords Cellular automata  Simulation  Matlab  Topology control  WSN This work has been partially supported by EU under the ICT-2010-258307 project EULER and by EU and the Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs under the project Digital School (296441). S. Athanassopoulos  C. Kaklamanis  E. Papaioannou (&) Computer Technology Institute & Press ‘‘Diophantus’’, Patras University Campus, 26504 Rion, Greece e-mail: papaioan@ceid.upatras.gr S. Athanassopoulos e-mail: athanaso@ceid.upatras.gr C. Kaklamanis e-mail: kakl@ceid.upatras.gr S. Athanassopoulos  C. Kaklamanis  G. Kalfountzos  E. Papaioannou Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, Patras University Campus, 26504 Rion, Greece e-mail: kalfount@ceid.upatras.gr James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park et al. (eds.), Future Information Technology, Application, and Service, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 164, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4516-2_2, Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dortdrecht 2012 13