Reliable Multicast Protocol in Distributed Simulation for Multi-agent Systems

Using computational clusters to simulate multi-agent systems has attracted a considerable amount of interest in recent years because of its ability to perform investigations about large complex systems. Many factors such as the load balancing among the nodes, the communication latencies or the synchronizing the logical processes, however, can impact on its performance. This paper focuses on the minimization of communication costs by proposing using reliable multicast mechanism for reducing communication latency problem. This promises to give an improvement in its performance.