Very large networks such as the Internet exhibit many puzzling dynamic behaviors: fractal trac patterns, congestion storms, and unforeseen consequences of new "killer applications" such as Web browsers. This article shows how a new scalable modeling framework (SSF) and scalable parallel simulations make it possible to analyze the detailed behavior of multi-domain, multi-protocol models of the Internet with hundreds of thousands of hosts and routers.
Citation:
James H. Cowie, David M. Nicol, Andy T. Ogielski, "Modeling the Global Internet," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 42-50, Jan./Feb. 1999, doi:10.1109/5992.743621