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Automating the Mean-Field Method for Large Dynamic Gossip Networks

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Automating the Mean-Field Method for Large Dynamic Gossip Networks
Abstract--We investigate an abstraction method, called meanfield method, for the performance evaluation of dynamic networks with pairwise communication between nodes. It allows us to evaluate systems with very large numbers of nodes, that is, systems of a size where traditional performance evaluation methods fall short. While the mean-field analysis is well-established in epidemics and for chemical reaction systems, it is rarely used for communetworks because a mean-field model tends to abstract away the underlying topology. To represent topological information, however, we extend the mean-field analysis with the concept of classes of states. At the ion level of classes we define the network topology by means of connectivity between nodes. This enables us to encode physical node positions and model dynamic networks by allowing nodes to change their class membership whenever they make a local state transition. Based on these extensions, we derive and implement algorithms for automating ...
Rena Bakhshi, Jörg Endrullis, Stefan Endrulli
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where QEST
Authors Rena Bakhshi, Jörg Endrullis, Stefan Endrullis, Wan Fokkink, Boudewijn R. Haverkort
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