"Efficient Parallel Simulation with the Statistical Synchronization Method"
Conference Paper, Western Multiconference on Simulation (WMC'98) / Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (CNDS'98), January 11-14 1998, San Diego, CA, USA (pp. 3-8)

ABSTRACT

The transient behaviour, accuracy and efficiency of the Statistical Synchronisation Method (SSM) is studied in a practically important case. An existing high-speed network (two interconnected FDDI Rings) is simulated accurately. The topology, cable lengths and the offered load is taken from the real system. The results of the simulation with SSM are compared to the results of a reference simulation without SSM. The execution times of distributed and non-distributed simulations using SSM are compared with the execution time of the reference simulation (without SSM).

The questions of easy implementation of paralell simulation with the help of SSM are also discussed.

We conclude that the simulation with SSM is a bit less accurate, but it facilitates a very efficient parallel simulation which can be easily implemented and provides an excellent speedup.