Harald Bucher, Alexander Klimm, O. Sander, J. Becker
{"title":"Power Estimation of an ECDSA Core Applied in V2X Scenarios Using Heterogeneous Distributed Simulation","authors":"Harald Bucher, Alexander Klimm, O. Sander, J. Becker","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.35","url":null,"abstract":"Embedded systems are steadily growing in complexity and nowadays power consumption additionally plays an important role. Designing and exploring such systems embedded in its environment demand for holistic and efficient simulations. In this work we use a simulation framework based on the HLA (High-Level Architecture) and the modeling tool Ptolemy II to enable complex heterogeneous distributed simulations of embedded systems. In this context, we introduce a co-simulation based power estimation approach by integrating domain-specific simulators as well as off-the-shelf HDL simulator and synthesis tools. This enables cross-domain interaction and generation of realistic on-the-fly stimuli data for Register Transfer Level and Gate Level models as well as the gathering of power estimation data. We apply the framework to a Vehicle-2-X scenario evaluating an ECDSA signature processing core which ensures trustworthiness in vehicular wireless networks. To evaluate dynamic power reduction possibilities on application level we additionally introduce a V2X Message Evaluation technique to reduce signature verification efforts. It shows how realistic on-the-fly stimuli data obtained by the framework can improve the exploration and estimation of dynamic power consumption.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"81 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122545631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Empirical Study of Energy Consumption in Distributed Simulations","authors":"R. Fujimoto, A. Biswas","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.32","url":null,"abstract":"Power and energy consumption are important concerns in the design of high performance and mobile computing systems, but have not been widely considered in the design of parallel and distributed simulations. The importance of these factors is discussed and metrics for power and energy overhead in parallel and distributed simulations are proposed. Factors affecting the energy consumed by synchronization algorithms and software architectures are examined. An experimental study is presented examining energy consumption of the well-known Chandy/Misra/Bryant algorithm executing on a peer-to-peer mobile computing platform and compared with a centralized client-server approach using the YAWNS synchronization algorithm. Initial results concerning queueing network simulations are also presented. The results of this study suggest that existing distributed simulation algorithms require a significant amount of additional energy compared to a sequential execution. Further, different synchronization algorithms can yield different energy consumption behaviors.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128828470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward Scalable Emulation of Future Internet Applications with Simulation Symbiosis","authors":"Jason Liu, C. Marcondes, Musab Ahmed, Rong Rong","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.19","url":null,"abstract":"Mininet is a popular container-based emulation environment built on Linux for testing Open Flow applications. Using Mininet, one can compose an experimental network using a set of virtual hosts and virtual switches with flexibility. However, it is well understood that Mininet can only provide a limited capacity, both for CPU and network I/O, due to its underlying physical constraints. We propose a method for combining simulation and emulation to improve the scalability of network experiments. This is achieved by applying the symbiotic approach to effectively integrate emulation and simulation for hybrid experimentation. In this case, one can use Mininet to directly run Open Flow applications on the virtual machines and software switches, with network connectivity represented by detailed simulation at scale.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132988379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive Human Behavior Modeling for Air Combat Simulation","authors":"Jian Yao, Qiwang Huang, Weiping Wang","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.12","url":null,"abstract":"Military simulations, especially those for personnel training and equipment effectiveness analysis, require proper human behavior models (HBMs) to play blue or red. Traditionally, the HBMs are controlled through rule based scripts. However, the doctrine-driven behavior is rigid and predictable, and more often than not unable to adapt to new situations. In most cases, the subject matter experts (SMEs) review, re-design a large amount of HBM scripts for new scenarios or training tasks, which is challenging and time-consuming. Therefore, a study of using Grammatical Evolution (GE) to generate adaptive HBMs for air combat simulation is conducted in this work. Expert knowledge is encoded with modular behavior trees (BTs) for the compatibility with the operators in genetic algorithm (GA). GE maps HBMs represented with BTs to binary strings, and uses GA to evolve HBMs with the performance fed back from simulation. Beyond visual range air combat experiments between adaptive HBMs and none-adaptive baseline HBMs are conducted to study the evolutionary process. The experimental results show that the GE is an efficient framework to generate adaptive HBMs in BTs formalism and evolve them with GA.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133964387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aggregating Opinions to Optimize Multi-objective Urban Tactical Position Selection","authors":"Kai Xu, Lin Sun, Quanjun Yin","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.22","url":null,"abstract":"In this research-in-progress paper we present a new real-world domain for studying the aggregation of different opinions: optimal urban tactical position selection (TPS). This is an important and foreseeable real world application, not only because cities have been viewed as centers of gravity by military planners throughout history, but also because the military significance of cities has increased proportionally as the global urbanization does. We first present a mapping between the domain of engineering research and that of the agent models present in the literature and use genetic multi-objective optimization method to generate Pareto TPS plans. Further we study the importance of forming diverse teams when aggregating opinions of different problem solvers for tactical position selection, and also the relationships of the number of problem solvers with time ratio and the solution efficiency. We show that a diverse team of problem solvers is able to provide better force deployment plans for early-stage decision makers to choose from. We also find that opinion aggregation methods, like approval voting, help to allocate a difficult problem solving among several computing resources, and at the same time ensuring the efficiency of solutions. Finally, we present next steps for a deeper exploration of our questions.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121054111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Targeted Extraction of Simulation Data","authors":"Johannes Schützel, A. Uhrmacher","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.37","url":null,"abstract":"Since simulation is a tool for generating data, a major task in executing simulations is to extract data from simulation runs. However, traditional methods of data extraction such as instrumenting the model code by hand or over-instrumenting the model and filtering data offline suffer from inflexibility and poor efficiency. To overcome these shortcomings, this paper promotes configurable targeted online data extraction, which also has special relevance in the field of real-time simulation. Nevertheless, there is no common terminology for the range of functions for targeted data extraction and there is no common concept for the implementation of flexible and efficient solutions. By decomposing the data extraction problem and by formalizing generalizable parts, this paper provides a conceptional framework for the assessment and implementation of language-based data extraction solutions. It turns out that data extraction can be decomposed into a sequential and a structural dimension, both of which having operations for selection, extraction, and windowed aggregation. As a proof of concept, the functionality of existing data extraction languages is analyzed using the proposed terminology.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114560128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A WordNet-Based Parameter Configuration Assistance Technology in Simulation Application","authors":"F. Yao, Yiping Yao","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.27","url":null,"abstract":"The parameter configuration is frequent and necessary in the simulation application development. During the parameter configuration, the candidate parameters are numerous and of various types, selecting the correct candidate parameter by hand is of heavy workload and error-prone, thus hampering the progress of the simulation application development. Aiming at this problem, this paper puts forward a Word Net-based parameter configuration assistance technology, which calculates the similarity of the target parameter and candidate parameters based on Word Net one by one, from three aspects: parameter name, parameter type and parameter description. And then rank the candidate parameters in a descending order according to the similarity value, providing the users for easier selection. The test result shows that this method can effectively avoid frequent selection, thus improving the efficiency of parameters configuration.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115034441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ibad Kureshi, G. Theodoropoulos, E. Mangina, G. O’hare, J. Roche
{"title":"Towards an Info-Symbiotic Decision Support System for Disaster Risk Management","authors":"Ibad Kureshi, G. Theodoropoulos, E. Mangina, G. O’hare, J. Roche","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.26","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines a framework for an info-symbiotic modelling system using cyber-physical sensors to assist in decision-making. Using a dynamic data-driven simulation approach, this system can help with the identification of target areas and resource allocation in emergency situations. Using different natural disasters as exemplars, we will show how cyber-physical sensors can enhance ground level intelligence and aid in the creation of dynamic models to capture the state of human casualties. Using a virtual command & control centre communicating with sensors in the field, up-to-date information of the ground realities can be incorporated in a dynamic feedback loop. Using other information (e.g. Weather models) a complex and rich model can be created. The framework adaptively manages the heterogeneous collection of data resources and uses agent-based models to create what-if scenarios in order to determine the best course of action.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126192224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yangyang Hu, Lizhe Wang, Yingze Liu, Dan Chen, Xiaoli Li
{"title":"Towards an Efficient Multi-way Factorization of Multi-dimensional Big Data across a GPU Cluster","authors":"Yangyang Hu, Lizhe Wang, Yingze Liu, Dan Chen, Xiaoli Li","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.17","url":null,"abstract":"It has long been an important issue in various disciplines to examine massive multi-dimensional data by extracting the embedded multi-way factors. With the quick increases in both scales and dimensions of data under analysis, research challenges arise in order to reflect the dynamics of large-scale tensors while introducing no significant distortions in the factorization procedure in sophisticated applications. A massively parallel computing framework, namely H-PARAFAC, has been developed to enable Parallel Factor Analysis (PARAFAC) of massive tensors upon a \"divide-and-conquer\" theory (a modified alternating least squares approach). The hierarchical framework incorporates a coarse-grained model for coordinating the processing of sub tensors and a fine-grained parallel model for computing each sub tensor and fusing sub-factors. Experiments have been performed on a GPU cluster, and the results indicate that (1) the proposed method breaks the limitation on the size of data to be factorized, and (2) it dramatically outperforms the traditional counterparts in terms of both scalability and efficiency, e.g., The runtime increases linearly with the data volume increases in the order of n3.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124181090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaobo Li, Weiping Wang, Ning Zhu, Hua He, Yonglin Lei
{"title":"A State-Centered Multi-formalism Behavioral Modeling Method for Combat System Effectiveness Simulation","authors":"Xiaobo Li, Weiping Wang, Ning Zhu, Hua He, Yonglin Lei","doi":"10.1109/DS-RT.2015.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.13","url":null,"abstract":"Behavioral modeling is a pivot modeling issue in combat system effectiveness simulation. There are different aspects of combat behaviors which need to be modeled with multiple modeling and simulation formalisms. In this paper, we firstly analyze the characteristics of different combat behavior aspects and the choice of formalisms to cope with a specific behavioral aspect. Then we propose a state-centered multi-formalism behavioral modeling method. We also build a metamodel and a modeling environment to provide infrastructure support for this method. Finally a case study on missile behavior modeling is given. The proposed method can enable the modeler to describe different aspects of the combat behaviors appropriately by using suitable formalisms, and thus support effectiveness simulation under the background of system-of-systems counterwork.","PeriodicalId":207275,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE/ACM 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122492427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}