Quantile Estimation for Performance Measures in Network Simulations with CINSim

This paper presents the simulator CINSim. It was developed to investigate interconnection network architectures for a wide application range, like networks-on-chip or parallel computers. CINSim allows the simulation of arbitrary network topologies, various traffic distributions in time and space as well as dynamic reconfiguration of the network under investigation. Besides the estimation of mean values for several performance measures, quantiles can be observed.