Overview
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Simulation is nowadays widely used for system prediction and performance
analysis tasks. However as the demand for larger and more complex models
increases, sequential simulations, i.e. those performed on a single
processor, become very time-consuming and appear less attractive than
before. In order to reduce the simulation time, and to increase the
system size as well, parallel simulation techniques have been developed
during the last 2 decades to distribute a simulation over a set of
processors. Our work can be divided in two parts: the first part deals
with parallel and distributed simulation protocols and mechanisms while
the second aims at using these techniques for simulation very-large
scale communication network models.
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