Simulating Large Networks: How Big is Big Enough?

Riley, George
Ammar, Mostafa

Abstract

Simulation has become the evaluation method of choice for many areas of computer networking research. However, most existing network simulation packages have severe limitations on the size and complexity of the network being modeled. Simulated networks of just a few thousand network elements and a few thousand data flows will quickly exhaust the computing resources in any reasonably sized computer workstation. Thus the researcher is faced with the dilemma of proving concepts designed to work

Keywords

parallel
scaleable
survey

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Bibtex

 @inproceedings{riley.ammar_enough02,
 author      ="George Riley and Mostafa Ammar",
 title       ="Simulating Large Networks: How Big is Big Enough?",
 booktitle   ="Proceedings of First International Conference on Grand Challenges for Modeling and Simulation",
 year        ="2002",
 month       ="Jan.",
 documentURL ="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Mostafa.Ammar/papers/GCsim.ps"
}

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