Efficient Concurrent Simulation of Large Networks Using Various Fault Models

April 4, 2001
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Halligan 106
Speaker: Evan Weststrate, Tufts University Graduate Students

Abstract

This will be a talk on a published Simulation Symposium 2001 paper to be presented in Seattle on April 23rd. As a precursor to the paper, a brief introduction will be given to fault simulation, fault modeling, and our concurrent algorithms. An improved fault simulation environment is described in this paper, and details of its faulting capability are presented and tested. The versatility of our fault simulator in handling different fault models by adding new activity functions to our modeling structure such as n- terminal bridge faults is shown. We use our TUFTsim simulator, which is based on concurrent simulation algorithms to efficiently fault simulate large networks, and the Multiple List Traversal mechanism handles the propagation of concurrent elements through the topology. Results on some of the ITC '99 Benchmarks are shown based on the stuck-at and logical bridge fault models. The use of the bridge fault in combination with the stuck-at model was found to not depreciate the simulation efficiency.