Towards a Simulation Framework for the Evaluation of Distributed Applications Executing in the Internet Domain

摘要

We are developing detailed simulation models to study, evaluate, and predict the performance of complex distributed applications executing in the Internet domain. Our approach is to model each component of the distributed application in as much detail as required, and to efficiently execute the model by partitioning it across multiple processors and using scalable parallel simulation techniques to coordinate the simulation activity. The interactions of system components are modeled by the interactions between individual parallel simulations. Thus the component simulations cooperate and coordinate their simulation activity, and, when taken together, provide detailed composite models of overall system level behavior.