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GPU-based Architectures and their Benefit for Accurate and Efficient Wireless Network Simulations

Andelfinger, P. 1; Mittag, J. 2; Hartenstein, H. 1,2
1 Scientific Computing Center (SCC), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
2 Institut für Telematik (TM), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

In recent years, a trend towards the usage of physical layer models with increased accuracy can be observed within the wireless network community. This trend has several reasons. The consideration of signals - instead of packets - as the smallest unit of a wireless network simulation enables the ability to reflect complex radio propagation characteristics properly, and to study novel PHY/MAC/NET cross-layer optimizations that were not directly possible before, e.g. cognitive radio networks and interference cancelation. Yet, there is a price to pay for the increase of accuracy, namely a significant decrease of runtime performance due to computationally expensive signal processing. In this paper we study whether this price can be reduced - or even eliminated - if GPU-based signal processing is employed. In particular, we present and discuss four different architectures that can be used to exploit GPU-based signal processing in discrete event-based simulations. Our evaluation shows that the runtime costs can not be cut down completely, but significant speedups can be expected compared to a non GPU-based solution.


Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOTS.2011.40
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Telematik (TM)
Scientific Computing Center (SCC)
Universität Karlsruhe (TH) – Zentrale Einrichtungen (Zentrale Einrichtungen)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsjahr 2011
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISBN: 978-1-4577-0468-0
ISSN: 1526-7539
KITopen-ID: 1000023373
Erschienen in Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Singapore - July 25 -27, 2011
Verlag Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Seiten 421-424
Serie IEEE International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems - Proceedings
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