PARALLEL SIMULATION ENVmONMENT FOR MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORKS
Winston Liu, Ching‐Chuan Chiang, Hsiao-Kuang Wu, Vikas Jha, Mário Gerla, Rajive L. Bagrodia · 1996
A parallel simulator has been designed for the eval uation of wireless, multihop, mobile networks. This paper describes the process of porting the simulator from a sequential to a parallel environment. Paral lelization is critical in large radio networks, where the complexity of radio propagation models, channel ac cess schemes and interference patterns makes sequen tial simulation very time consuming - in the order of several hours. for 100 nodes experiments. With par allel execution, speedups of up to tenfold have been observed on a 16 processor SP/2, making large net work simulations viable.