Article by: Robert Simon, Woan Sun Chang, J. Mark Pullen (simon@cs.gmu.edu, wchang@cs.gmu.edu, mpullen@gmu.e)
Robert Simon
Woan Sun Chang
J. Mark Pullen
Dept. of Computer Science and C3I Center George Mason University Fairfax, VA, 22030 USA
{simon, wchang}@cs.gmu.edu, mpullen@gmu.edu
ABSTRACT:
This paper addresses the issue of supporting large-scale agent-oriented simulation systems using end-host multicast. End-host multicasting is required when IP multicasting is not available, as in the case of much of the current Internet. Using a previously developed agent architecture for distributed simulation, we present a suite of highly-adaptive agent interconnection algorithms using overlay multicasting techniques. We have experimentally evaluated our approach under a number of different scenarios. Analysis shows that it is possible to achieve end-to-end system performance comparable to native network-layer multicast for agent-based systems using end-host multicast.
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