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Exploiting the Predictability of TCP’s Steady-state Behavior to Speed Up Network Simulation
Exploiting the Predictability of TCP’s Steady-state Behavior to Speed Up Network Simulation
| dc.contributor.author | He, Qi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ammar, Mostafa H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Riley, George F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fujimoto, Richard M. | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-11T20:08:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-01-11T20:08:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002-10 | |
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| dc.description | Presented at the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS 2002), October 11-16, 2002 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In discrete-event network simulation, a significant portion of resources and computation are dedicated to the creation and processing of packet transmission events. For large-scale network simulations with a large number of high-speed data flows, the processing of packet events is the most time consuming aspect of the simulation. In this work we develop a technique that saves on the processing of packet events for TCP flows using the well established results showing that the average behavior of a TCP flow is predictable given a steady-state path condition. We exploit this to predict the average behavior of a TCP flow over a future period of time where steady-state conditions hold, thus allowing for a reduction (or elimination) of the processing required for packet events during this period. We consider two approaches to predicting TCP’s steady-state behavior: using throughput formulas or by direct monitoring of a flow’s throughput in a simulation. We design a simulation framework that provides the flexibility to incorporate this method of simulating TCP packet flows. Our goal is 1) to accommodate different network configurations, on/off flow behaviors and interaction between predicted flows and packet-based flows; and 2) to preserve the statistical behavior of every entity in the system, from hosts to routers to links, so as to maintain the accuracy of the network simulation as a whole. In order to illustrate the promise of this idea we implement it in the context of the ns2 simulation system. A set of experiments illustrate the speedup and approximation of the simulation framework under different scenarios and for different network performance metrics. | en |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/13147 | |
| 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 | Packet switching | en |
| dc.subject | Statistical analysis | en |
| dc.subject | Transport protocols | en |
| dc.title | Exploiting the Predictability of TCP’s Steady-state Behavior to Speed Up Network Simulation | en |
| dc.type | Text | |
| 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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