Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, 1997. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8096-2
DOI :
10.1109/WPDRTS.1997.637987
