Distributed Simulation of Colored Stochastic Petri Nets With TimeNET 4.0

Author

Knoke, M. ; Zimmermann, Armin

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Tech. Informatik und Mikroelektronik, Technische Univ. Berlin

fYear

2006

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

118

Abstract

This paper presents a prototype extension of TimeNET, which allows the distributed simulation of colored stochastic Petri nets on a cluster of workstations. TimeNET is a software tool for the modeling and performability evaluation using stochastic Petri nets. Recent changes are available as beta version 4.0, and include a new XML- and Java-based graphical user interface allowing the tool to run in Windows environments. The described new module supports an optimistic distributed simulation of colored models with fine-grained partitioning. A new approach to logical time has been developed and implemented to support a truly distributed simulation of immediate transitions, global guards, and global result measures, which was not possible with existing logical time schemes

Keywords

Java; Petri nets; XML; digital simulation; graph colouring; graphical user interfaces; workstation clusters; Java-based graphical user interface; TimeNET 4.0; XML graphical user interface; colored stochastic Petri nets; distributed simulation; workstations cluster; Graphical user interfaces; Java; Performance evaluation; Petri nets; Software prototyping; Software tools; Stochastic processes; Time measurement; Virtual prototyping; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, 2006. QEST 2006. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Riverside, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2665-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QEST.2006.16

Filename

1703996