Simulation-based performance analysis of distributed systems

Author

Schwarz, Peter ; Donath, Ulrich

Author_Institution

Dept. of Design Autom., Fraunhofer Inst. for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany

fYear

1997

fDate

1-3 Apr 1997

Firstpage

244

Lastpage

249

Abstract

Performance analysis of distributed systems may be performed on different levels of abstraction. An accurate but time-consuming method is the construction of a simulation model which includes the different subsystems, the communication system, and the load profile. In particular, this approach seems to be very powerful for real-time systems because of the inherent possibility of precise calculations of delays and processing times. A VHDL-based approach is presented which supports the performance analysis of mixed discrete-continuous distributed systems

Keywords

control system CAD; control system analysis computing; distributed control; distributed processing; hardware description languages; industrial control; performance evaluation; real-time systems; LAN; VHDL-based approach; WAN; automatic workpiece handling; communication delays; communication system; computing systems; control systems; distributed systems; levels of abstraction; load profile; mixed discrete-continuous distributed systems; performance analysis; queueing networks; real-time systems; simulation model; simulation-based performance analysis; stochastic Petri nets; subsystems; Analytical models; Automatic control; Circuit simulation; Communication system control; Context modeling; Delay; Performance analysis; Process control; Real time systems; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, 1997. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8096-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPDRTS.1997.637987

Filename

637987