Exploiting model independence for parallel PCS network simulation
Azzedine Boukerche, Sajal Kumar Das, Alessandro Fabbri, Oktay Yıldız · Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation · 1999
In this paper, we present a parallel simulator (SWiMNet) for PCS networks using a combination of optimistic and conservative paradigms. The proposed methodology exploits event precomputation permitted by model independence within the PCS components. The low percentage of blocked calls is exploited in the channel allocation simulation of precomputed events by means of an optimistic approach. %To illustrate and verify the developed approach, Experiments were conducted with various call arrival rates and mobile host densities on a cluster of Pentium workstations. Performance results indicate that the SWiMNet achieves a speedup of 6 employing 8 workstations, and a speedup of 12 with 16 workstations.