COSSIM: An open-source integrated solution to address the simulator gap for systems of systems

Andreas Brokalakis, Nikolaos Tampouratzis, Antonios Nikitakis, Ioannis Papaefstathiou, Stamatis Andrianakis, Danilo Pau, Emanuele Plebani, Marco Paracchini, Marco Marcon, Ioannis Sourdis, Prajith Ramakrishnan Geethakumari, Maria Carmen Palacios, Miguel Angel Anton, Attila Szasz

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Abstract

In an era of complex networked heterogeneous systems, simulating independently only parts, components or attributes of a system under design is not a viable, accurate or efficient option. The interactions are too many and too complicated to produce meaningful results and the optimization opportunities are severely limited when considering each part of a system in an isolated manner. The presented COSSIM simulation framework is the first known open-source, high-performance simulator that can handle holistically system-of-systems including processors, peripherals and networks; such an approach is very appealing to both CPS/IoT and Highly Parallel Heterogeneous Systems designers and application developers. Our highly integrated approach is further augmented with accurate power estimation and security sub-tools that can tap on all system components and perform security and robustness analysis of the overall networked system. Additionally, a GUI has been developed to provide easy simulation set-up, execution and visualization of results. COSSIM has been evaluated using real-world applications representing cloud (mobile visual search) and CPS systems (building management) demonstrating high accuracy and performance that scales almost linearly with the number of CPUs dedicated to the simulator.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 21st Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2018
EditorsNikos Konofaos, Martin Novotny, Amund Skavhaug
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages115-120
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538673768
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Oct 2018
Event21st Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2018 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 29 Aug 201831 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 21st Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2018

Conference

Conference21st Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2018
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period29/08/1831/08/18

Keywords

  • Cps simulator
  • Distributed system simulator
  • Gem5
  • High level architecture
  • Omnet++
  • Parallel system simulator

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