Title: Distributed simulation of large-scale and detailed models

Authors: G. D'Angelo, M. Bracuto

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, 40127 Bologna, Italy. ' Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, 40127 Bologna, Italy

Abstract: We present a new approach for the distributed simulation of large-scale and detailed models. Our approach increases the simulator speed jointly addressing two main problems of distributed simulation: the reduction of the communication overhead and the load-balancing in the execution cluster. The proposed method dynamically reconfigures the simulation, considering the performance of each part of the execution architecture. In this way, commercial-off-the-shelf hardware can be used for fast and cost-effective simulations. The performance evaluation, based on the 802.11 DCF protocol, demonstrates that this approach is feasible for the detailed simulation of very large-scale models such as wireless networks.

Keywords: distributed simulation; load balancing; wireless networks; large-scale models; detailed models; communication overhead.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2009.028625

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 2009 Vol.5 No.2, pp.120 - 131

Published online: 21 Sep 2009 *

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