Huang, Polly
Estrin, Deborah
Heidemann, John
Abstract
| Due to the complexity and scale of the current
Internet, large-scale simulation is an increasingly
important tool to evaluate network protocol design.
Parallel and distributed simulation is one appropriate
approach to the simulation scalability problem, but it
can require expensive hardware and have high
overhead. We investigate a complimentary solution --
simulation abstraction. Just as a custom simulator
includes only details necessary for the task at hand, a
general simulator can support configurable levels of
detail for different simulations. We demonstrate two
abstraction techniques in multicast simulations and show
that they each help to gain one order of magnitude in
performance. Although abstraction simulations are no
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Keywords
large scale
abstraction
multicast
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Bibtex
@misc{ huang98enabling,
author = "P. Huang and D. Estrin and J. Heidemann",
title = "Enabling large-scale simulations: selective abstraction approach to the study of multicast protocols",
text = "Huang, P., Estrin, D., and Heidemann, J. Enabling large-scale simulations: selective abstraction approach to the study of multicast protocols. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (Montreal, Canada, July 1998), IEEE, pp. 241-248.",
year = "1998"
}