Study of dynamic routing algorithms using a high-speed multiprocessor simulator

The design of a network simulator is presented which seeks to avoid the mainframe implementation limitations by the introduction of concurrent processing into the simulation environment and the major features of the software design are discussed in terms of their implementation requirements over the loosely coupled multiprocessor system. In the simulator, transputers are used to represent the nodes in a communications network and the links are used to mimic the connections between the nodes. By using the computational power provided by each transputer and its serial links, a powerful simulation tool has been constructed from an array of these devices, the code of which is written in the computer language Occam