A framework for rare event simulation of stochastic Petri nets using “RESTART”
WSC '96 Proceedings of the 28th conference on Winter simulation
Multilevel Splitting for Estimating Rare Event Probabilities
Operations Research
Faster Network Design with Scenario Pre-Filtering
MASCOTS '02 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
On the efficiency of RESTART for multidimensional state systems
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Rare events, splitting, and quasi-Monte Carlo
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Introduction to regenerative simulation
IBM Journal of Research and Development
The rare event simulation method RESTART: efficiency analysis and guidelines for its application
Network performance engineering
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Obtaining the resilience characteristics, like availability and duration of outages, of the services provided by a communication network by simulation is a challenging task. The failure to provide a service with a satisfactory Quality of Service (QoS) level between two nodes in the network is a rare event and invites the use of special simulation techniques. Since the QoS is determined by the routes used and the traffic pattern, this must be accounted for. This requires a simulator far more comprehensive than those used for rare event simulations until now. The approach investigated in this paper was to apply the RESTART/Splitting technique to the well-known open source simulator Network Simulator 2 (NS2), which is capable of dealing with the required network operation and management issues. A first version simulator focusing in the application of RESTART/Splitting rather than the inclusion of all networking aspects was developed and compared with direct simulation of a realistic network. The approach proved to be feasible with a promising gain.