Towards scalable network emulation

Computer Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 264-277

  Simmonds, Rob ^a   Unger, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Network Emulation; Parallel computing; Scalability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SERVERS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

NETWORK EMULATION;

INTERNET;

EID: 0037440972     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-3664(02)00141-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (34)

1. Multimedia advanced computational infrastructure (MACI); http://www.maci.ca.
2. Myricom web site: http://www.myri.com.
3. PCAP Packet Capture Library; available from http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/nrg.html.
4. R. Bagrodia, R. Mayer, M. Takai, Y. Chen, X. Zeng, J. Martin, H. Song, PARSEC: a parallel simulation environment for complex systems. IEEE 31 (1) 1998.
5. L. Bajaj, M. Takai, R. Ahuja, K. Tank, R. Bagrodia, M. Gerla, GloMoSim: a scalable network simulation environment, Technical Report 990027, UCLA Computer Science Department.
6. Bradford R., Simmonds R., Unger B. A parallel discrete event IP network emulator. Proceedings of Mascots 2000: The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. 2000;. pp. 315-322.
7. Bradford R., Simmonds R., Unger B. Packet reading for network emulation. Proceedings of Mascots 2001: The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. 2001.
8. R. Bryant, Simulation of packet communication architecture computer systems, Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-188, MIT, November 1977.
9. Chandy K.M., Misra J. Distributed simulation: a case study in design and verification of distributed simulation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 5:(5):1979;440-452.
10. Chandy K.M., Misra J. Asynchronous distributed simulation via a sequence of parallel computations. Communications of the ACM. 24:(11):1981;198-206.
11. Culler D.E., Singh J.P., Gupta A. Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach. 1998;Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, CA.
12. Fall K. Network emulation in the VINT/ns simulator. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer Telecommunication Systems. 1999;. pp. 244-250.
13. Franks S., Gomes F., Unger B., Cleary J. Saving for interactive optimistic simulation, Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation. 1977;Society for Computer Simulation, P.O. Box 17900, San Diego, California 92177-7900 U.S.A. pp. 72-79.
14. Fujimoto R.M. Parallel and Distributed Simulation Systems. 2000;Wiley/Interscience, New York.
15. Fujimoto R., Hoare P. Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop. Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop. 1998.
16. Ghosh K., Panesar K., Fujimoto R.M., Schwan K. PORTS: A parallel, optimistic, real-time simulator. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation. 1994;Society for Computer Simulation. pp. 24-31.
17. Jefferson D.R. Virtual rime. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 1985;404-425.
18. Reynolds P.F. Jr. A shared resource algorithm for distributed simulation. Ninth International Symposium on Computer Architecture. 1982;IEEE Press, New York. pp. 259-266.
19. Reynolds P.F. Jr. A spectrum of options for parallel siulation. Winter Simulation Conference. 1988;Society for Computer Simulation. pp. 325-322.
20. Kesidis G., Singh A., Cheung D., Kwok W.W. Feasibility of fluid-driven simulation for ATM Networks. Proceedings of IEEE Globecom. 1996;. pp. 2013-2017.
21. Lubachevsky B., Schwartz A., Weiss A. Rollback sometimes works...if filtered. Winter Simulation Conference. 1989;Society for Computer Simulation. pp. 630-639.
22. Nicol D.M. Proceedings of the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference. Proceedings of the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference. 1996;Society for Computer Simulation. pp. 128-135.
23. Department of Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), High Level Architecture (HLA), home page: http://www.dmso.mil/hla.
24. Riley G.F., Fujimoto R.M., Ammar M.H. A generic framework for parallelization of network simulations. Proceedings of Mascots 1999: The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. 1999.
25. R. Simmonds, Experiments in Distributed Time Warp, PhD Thesis, The University of Bath, 1999.
26. Simmonds R., Bradford R., Unger B. Applying parallel discrete event simulation to network emulation, 14th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2000), Bologna, Italy. 2000;. pp. 15-22.
27. Simmonds R., Kiddle C., Unger B. Addressing blocking and scalability in critical channel traversing, Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation. 2002.
28. Simmonds R., Williamson C., Bradford R., Arlitt M., Unger B. Web server benchmarking using parallel WAN emulation, SIMETRICS. 2002.
29. J.S. Steinman, Interactive SPEEDES, Technical Report, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Mail Stop 525-3960, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA, 1993.
30. Steinman J.S. Discrete-event simulation and the event horizon, Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation. 1994;Society for Computer Simulation. pp. 39-49.
31. Unger B.W., Gomes F., Zhonge X., Gburzynski P., Ono-Tesfaye T., Ramaswamy S., Williamson C., Covington A. A high fidelity ATM traffic and network simulator, Proceedings of the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference. 1995;Society for Computer Simulation. pp. 996-1003.
32. Z. Xiao, B. Unger, Report on WarpKit - performance study and improvement, Technical Report 98-628-19, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 1995.
33. Xiao Z., Unger B., Simmonds R., Cleary J. Scheduling critical channels in coservative parallel discrete event simulation, Proceeding of the 13th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation. 1999.
34. Xu L., Takai M., Martin J., Bagrodia R. Looking ahead of real time in hybrid component networks. Proceeding of the 15th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation. 2001;. pp. 14-21.