Federated simulation of network performance using packet flow modeling

  • Authors:
  • Turan Demirci;Semih Bilgen

  • Affiliations:
  • Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • SCSC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

An approach that significantly reduces the inter-federate communication load in federated simulation of communication networks is proposed. Rather than communicating packet-level information among federates, characteristics of packet flows in individual federates are dynamically identified and communicated. Flow characterization is done with the Gaussian Mixtures Algorithm (GMA) using a Self Organizing Mixture Network (SOMN) technique. A network partitioned into eight federates in space parallel manner is simulated for evaluating the proposed approach. It is shown that significant speedup is achieved with the proposed approach without unduly compromising accuracy.