EXPPO: EXecution Performance Profiling and Optimization for CPS Co-simulation-as-a-Service

Published

June 10, 2020

Author(s)

Yogesh Barve, Himanshu Neema, Zhuangwei Kang, Hongyang Sun, Aniruddha Gokhale, Thomas Roth

Abstract

A co-simulation may comprise several heterogeneous federates with diverse spatial and temporal execution characteristics. In an iterative time-stepped simulation, a federation exhibits the Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) computation paradigm in which all federates perform local operations and synchronize with their peers before proceeding to the next round of computation. In this context, the lowest performing (i.e., slowest) federate dictates the progression of the federation logical time. One challenge in co-simulation is performance profiling for individual federates and entire federations. The computational resource assignment to the federates can have a large impact on federation performance. Furthermore, a federation may comprise federates located on different physical machines as is the case for cloud and edge computing environments. As such, distributed profiling and resource assignment to the federation is a major challenge for operationalizing the co-simulation execution at scale. This paper presents the EXPPO methodology, which addresses these challenges by using execution performance profiling at each simulation execution step and for every federate in a federation. EXPPO uses profiling to learn performance models for each federate, and uses these models in its federation resource recommendation tool to solve an optimization problem that improves the execution performance of the co-simulation. Using an experimental testbed, the efficacy of EXPPO is validated to show the benefits of performance profiling and resource assignment in improving the execution runtimes of co-simulations while also minimizing the execution cost.

Proceedings Title

The 23rd International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing

Conference Dates

May 19-21, 2020

Conference Location

Nashville, TN, US

Pub Type

Conferences

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ISORC49007.2020.00040

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Keywords

cyber-physical systems, distributed simulation, latency, performance

Citation

Barve, Y. , Neema, H. , Kang, Z. , Sun, H. , Gokhale, A. and Roth, T. (2020), EXPPO: EXecution Performance Profiling and Optimization for CPS Co-simulation-as-a-Service, The 23rd International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing, Nashville, TN, US, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/ISORC49007.2020.00040, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=930291 (Accessed October 22, 2025)