"Design Criterion for the Statistics Exchange Control Algorithm used in the Statistical Synchronization Method"
Conference Paper, Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC 1999) / 32nd Annual Simulation Symposium, April 11-15 1999, San Diego, CA, USA (pp. 138-144)

ABSTRACT

The conditions of the statistics exchange of the Statistical Synchronization Method (SSM) are studied.

A statistics exchange control algorithm is proposed that is based on prediction and synchronization point deletion. The so-called penalty functions are introduced. They are used to give a mathematical criterion that can be a measure of the goodness of the different statistics exchange control algorithms.

Both analytical treatment and simulation show that there is a trade-off between the accuracy of the results and the achievable speed-up.

According to the simulation results, we can get near-optimal results for a relatively wide range values of the parameters of the prediction, thus SSM-T is robust enough to tolerate some inaccuracy of the parameters of the prediction.