NDLI: Expanding the Event Horizon in Parallelized Network Simulations

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Author	Kunz, G. Landsiedel, O. Götz, S. Wehrle, K. Gross, J. Naghibi, F.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	The simulation models of wireless networks rapidly increase in complexity to accurately model wireless channel characteristics and the properties of advanced transmission technologies. Such detailed models typically lead to a high computational load per simulation event that accumulates to extensive simulation runtimes. Reducing runtimes through parallelization is challenging since it depends on detecting causally independent events that can execute concurrently. Most existing approaches base this detection on lookaheads derived from channel propagation latency or protocol characteristics. In wireless networks, these lookaheads are typically short, causing the potential for parallelization and the achievable speedup to remain small. This paper presents Horizon, which unlocks a substantial portion of a simulation model's workload for parallelization by going beyond the traditional lookahead. We show how to augment discrete events with durations to identify a much larger horizon of independent simulation events and efficiently schedule them on multi-core systems. Our evaluation shows that this approach can significantly cut down the runtime of simulations, in particular for complex and accurate models of wireless networks.
Starting Page	172
Ending Page	181
File Size	622451
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424481811
ISSN	15267539
DOI	10.1109/MASCOTS.2010.26
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-08-17
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computational modeling Runtime Data models Timing Load modeling Analytical models Wireless networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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