Completed MSci Student: Alex Waite
20 May 2013
/ routing
Congratulations to Alex Waite, who has successfully completed his MSci
project on Using Actors
for Massive Simulation of Distributed Routing Algorithms. The
abstract of his final report reads “Existing simulators designed
for the evaluation of distributed graph algorithms tend to be based on
a threaded model of concurrency. This leads to scaling issues when
simulating particularly large graphs such as Internet-like graphs, or
poor utilisation of resources when using large multiprocessor machines.
Here, I present a simulator that uses actor-model concurrency to
directly model the interactions between nodes in a graph during the
simulation of a distributed algorithm. While more closely modelling
the behaviour of an abstract network, the actor model brings
performance advantages”.