Distributed simulation with COTS simulation packages

Author

Boer, Csaba Attila ; Verbraeck, Alexander

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Erasmus Univ. of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

829

Abstract

Connecting COTS (commercial-off-the-self) simulation packages entails various difficulties. First of all, commercially available simulation packages hide the access to some internal data that is needed to connect to other simulation models in the distributed simulation study. Next, the data sharing between simulation models is complicated. In order to carry out distributed simulation studies applying COTS simulation packages, we have to exactly define the interfacing and data transfer mechanisms. In this paper we present a theoretical description of different solutions for interfacing and transferring data between various simulation models. These mechanisms have been implemented and tested, and applied in a project in order to prove their practical usage.

Keywords

digital simulation; distributed programming; electronic data interchange; software packages; user interfaces; COTS simulation packages; commercial-off-the-self packages; commercially available simulation packages; data sharing; data transfer mechanism; distributed simulation; interfacing mechanism; internal data access; simulation models; Discrete event simulation; Ice; Packaging; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 Winter

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8131-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2003.1261501

Filename

1261501