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A Parallel Implicit Method for the Steady-State Solution of CTMCs
Monterey, CA September 11-September 14
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Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University, UK
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Jaafar M.H. Elmirghani, Swansea University, UK
This paper considers the steady-state solution of Continuous Time Markov Chains (CTMCs). CTMCs are a widely used formalism for the performance analysis of computer and communication systems. A large variety of useful performance measures can be derived from a CTMC via the computation of its steady-state probabilities. However, CTMC models for realistic systems are very large. We address this largeness problem in this paper by considering parallelisation of implicit methods. In particular, we consider a modified form of Multi- Terminal Binary Decision Diagrams (MTBDDs) to compactly store CTMCs, and, using Jacobi iterative method, we present a parallel method for the CTMC steady-state solution. Employing a 24-node processor bank, we analyse our parallel implicit method using the experimental results for three widely used CTMC benchmark models, with well over a billion states and sixteen billion transitions.
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Rashid Mehmood, Jon Crowcroft, Jaafar M.H. Elmirghani, "A Parallel Implicit Method for the Steady-State Solution of CTMCs," mascots, pp.293-302, 14th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation, 2006
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