Time-parallel generation of self-similar ATM traffic

Ioanis Nikolaidis, C. Anthony Cooper, Kalyan S. Perumalla, Richard M. Fujimoto
1997 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation - WSC '97  
We present a time-parallel technique for the fast generation of self-similar traffic which is suitable for performance studies of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. The technique is based on the well known result according to which the aggregation of a large number of heavy-tailed ON/OFFtype renewal/reward processes asymptotically approximates a Fractional Gaussian Noise (FGN) process and, therefore, it possesses the characteristics of self-similarity and long-range dependence. The
more » ... ique parallelizes both the generation of the individual renewal/reward processes as well as the merging of these processes in a per-time-slice manner. Results obtained from a message-passing implementation on a cluster of workstations confirm that it is possible to generate self-similar ATM traffic in realtime for 155 Mbps (or even faster) links and that, furthermore, the technique achieves an almost linear speedup with respect to the number of available workstations.
doi:10.1145/268437.268742 fatcat:ufvrmyghnbfcja7iudip35fgh4