Optimizing geographically distributed timed cosimulation by hierarchically grouped messages

Abstract

This paper presents a concept called hierarchically grouped message to improve the performance of geographically distributed timed cosimulation. In the proposed method, messages which are transferred between simulators in a short period of simulated time are hierarchically grouped into a physical message to reduce the number of rollbacks in optimistic simulation as well as the communication overhead of message transfer. Experiments show the efficiency of the proposed method in an internationally distributed cosimulation environment.