An Event-Synchronization Protocol for Parallel Simulation of Large-Scale Wireless Networks

We present a new conservative event-synchronization protocol, time-based synchronization, for parallel discreteevent simulation of mobile ad hoc wireless networks. Simulators that use our protocol proceed at a scaled version of real time and send messages that correspond only to transmissions in the simulated network. We show that such simulators can maintain a constant execution time even as the sizes of the networks that they simulate grow. Moreover, we show that these simulators, when executed on a custom parallel architecture, are capable of simulating many networks faster than real time.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: DSRT
• Authors: Clinton Kelly IV, Rajit Manohar
• Keywords: Conservative Event-synchronization Protocol, DSRT 2003, Hoc Wireless Networks, Modelling And Simulation, Real Time