A Generic Framework for Parallelization of Network Simulations

Riley, George F.; Fujimoto, Richard M.; Ammar, Mostafa H.

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A Generic Framework for Parallelization of Network Simulations

dc.contributor.author	Riley, George F.
dc.contributor.author	Fujimoto, Richard M.
dc.contributor.author	Ammar, Mostafa H.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing
dc.date.accessioned	2006-10-19T19:23:43Z
dc.date.available	2006-10-19T19:23:43Z
dc.date.issued	1999-10
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dc.description	Presented at the 7th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 1999
dc.description.abstract	Discrete event simulation is widely used within the networking community for purposes such as demonstrating the validity of network protocols and architectures. Depending on the level of detail modeled within the simulation, the running time and memory requirements can be excessive. The goal of our research is to develop and demonstrate a practical, scalable approach to parallel and distributed simulation that will enable widespread reuse of sequential network simulation models and software. We focus on an approach to parallelization where an existing network simulator is used to build models of subnetworks that are composed to create simulations of larger networks. Changes to the original simulator care minimized, enabling the parallel simulator to easily track enhancements to the sequential version. We describe our lessons learned in applying this approach to the publicly available ns software package (McCanne and Floyd, 1997) and converting it to run in a parallel fashion on a network of workstations. This activity highlights a number of important problems, from the standpoint of how to parallelize an existing serial simulation model and achieving acceptable parallel performance	en
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/12194
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en
dc.publisher.original	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York
dc.subject	Discrete-event simulation	en
dc.subject	Parallel processing	en
dc.subject	Software packages	en
dc.subject	Telecommunication	en
dc.subject	Computing	en
dc.subject	Workstation clusters	en
dc.title	A Generic Framework for Parallelization of Network Simulations	en
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dc.type.genre	Proceedings
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local.contributor.author	Ammar, Mostafa H.
local.contributor.author	Fujimoto, Richard M.
local.contributor.corporatename	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename	College of Engineering
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