TeleSim is a collaborative research project between the University of Calgary (Professor Brian Unger, Department of Computer Science) and the University of Saskatchewan (Professor Carey Williamson). The goal of the TeleSim project is the development of high performance parallel simulation tools for the design and analysis of high speed telecommunication networks, particularly ATM networks.
The TeleSim project began in the spring of 1994, initially as a one-year project with financial support from CANARIE and six industry sponsors. This first phase of the TeleSim project, completed in June 1995, produced a working prototype sequential simulator called the ATM-TN (Asynchronous Transfer Mode Traffic and Network) model. This computer simulation tool helps network providers with the design, planning, operations, and management of high speed telecommunications networks. Ongoing work since 1995 has focussed on making the ATM-TN software run in parallel on multiprocessor platforms, such as the 14-processor SGI PowerChallenge at the University of Calgary, and making ATM-TN run as fast as possible.
More recently (March 1996), TeleSim (Phase II) has received four years of funding through an NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) grant, with matching contributions (cash and in-kind) from the industrial sponsors (AGT, Jade, Newbridge, NorTel, SAIC, Siemens, Stentor, and WURCNET). The title of this research grant is ``Parallel Simulation of Broadband Telecom Traffic and Networks''.
The co-investigators on this CRD grant are Brian Unger (Principal Investigator) and Carey Williamson. The collaborative research outlined in the grant proposal includes research issues in parallel simulation (e.g., state-saving, rollback optimization, interactive simulation visualization, automatic partitioning, and dynamic load balancing) led primarily by Unger, and research issues in high speed ATM networks (e.g., congestion control for ABR traffic, traffic modeling, statistical multiplexing, multi-level modeling, and modeling high delay-bandwidth networks), led by Williamson.
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