Improving run-time and memory footprint performance in large scale network simulations

The complexity of the issues involved in the evolving DoD communications infrastructure requires the use of simulation techniques to fully quantify achievable performance on an end-to-end basis. To date, the application of simulation techniques have been hampered because of excessive run-times and large memory footprints. The purpose of this paper is to report on the results of an internal R&D effort in which we are quantifying methods to improve the run-time and memory footprint performance in large scale simulations related to the evolving network-centric DoD paradigm