Load balancing study in PCS wireless networks

Wireless networking technologies and mobile cellular communication systems are growing at an ever faster rate, and this is likely to continue in the foreseeable future. Higher reliability, better coverage and services, higher capacity, mobility management, and wireless multimedia are all parts of the potpourri. The evolution of new systems and improved designs will always depend on the ability to predict system performance using analytical or simulation methods. To date, mathematical analysis has brought some insight into the design of such systems, but analytical methods are often not general or detailed enough for evaluation and comparison of various proposed mobile and/or wireless systems and their services. Distributed simulation techniques have been investigated in a number of studies to decrease the execution times of PCS simulations. We study the load balancing problem for PCS wireless simulation systems, and focus upon static strategies in order to reduce the synchronization overhead of SWiMNet, a parallel PCS simulation testbed developed at UNT.