2014/09/03 by Mirko Stoffers, Stoffers, Mirko, Ralf Bettermann +5
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Simulation Techniques and Applications #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1409.0994
Published in: A. Förster, C. Sommer, T. Steinbach, M. Wählisch (Eds.), Proc. of 1st OMNeT++ Community Summit, Hamburg, Germany, September 2, 2014, arXiv:1409.0093, 2014
arxiv created 2014/09/03 · openalex publication_date 2014/09/03 · arxiv updated 2014/09/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Parallel and distributed simulation have been extensively researched for a long time. Nevertheless, many simulation models are still executed sequentially. We attribute this to the fact that many of those models are simply not capable of being executed in parallel since they violate particular constraints. In this paper, we analyze the INET model suite, which enables network simulation in OMNeT++, with regard to parallelizability. We uncovered several issues preventing parallel execution of INET models. We analyzed those issues and developed solutions allowing INET models to be run in parallel. A case study shows the feasibility of our approach. Though there are parts of the model suite that we didn't investigate yet and the performance can still be improved, the results show parallelization speedup for most configurations. The source code of our implementation is available through our web site at code.comsys.rwth-aachen.de.