Practical distributed simulation of a network of wireless terminals

Author

Riihimaki, J. ; Kukkala, Petri ; Salminen, Erno ; Hännikänen, Marko ; Kuusilinna, Kimmo ; Hämäläinen, Timo D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Digital & Comput. Syst., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

fYear

2004

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

52

Abstract

Simulation with detailed register transfer-level models is crucial for many verification strategies. Thorough verification of a wireless network formed from several RTL WLAN terminal models is impractical since accurate simulations are very time consuming. In this paper, the problem is solved by distributing the simulation among several networked computers or on a multi-processor workstation. The distribution provides over 7-fold speed-up when the wireless network is simulated with eight Linux PCs. Eight-processor workstation provides over 5-fold speed-up for the same simulations.

Keywords

Linux; circuit simulation; integrated circuit modelling; microcomputer applications; multiprocessing systems; radio networks; system-on-chip; wireless LAN; Linux PC; RTL WLAN terminal models; distributed simulation; eight-processor workstation; multi-processor workstation; networked computers; register transfer-level models; verification strategies; wireless network simulations; wireless terminal network; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Computer simulation; Distributed computing; Linux; Personal communication networks; Registers; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System-on-Chip, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8558-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSOC.2004.1411144

Filename

1411144