We investigate the possibility of employing parallel simulation to study the effects of different resource allocation strategies in Mobile Telecommuni cation Systems. From this simulation study, we will collect information on resource utilization and the quality of service of the system.
Detailed simulation is needed to obtain sufficient information on a specific scenario.
Such a simulation demands long execution time. Long enough to warrant an interest in trying to parallelize these simulations. Our work includes the development of methods and tools to make the parallelization process feasible and the resulting parallel simulation application efficient. We have also started to investigate ways of modelling a mobile cellular telecommunication system for efficient parallel execution. In the first phase we intend to run the simulator on a multiprocessor workstation and later we will port it to a cluster of workstations connected by a local area network.