A layered architecture for the model-driven development of distributed simulators

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A layered architecture for the model-driven development of distributed simulators

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Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops table of contents

Marseille, France

SESSION: Technical program table of contents

Article No. 61

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-963-9799-20-2

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Daniele Gianni	Imperial College London, London, UK
Andrea D'Ambrogio	University of Rome TorVergata, Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Iazeolla	University of Rome TorVergata, Rome, Italy

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: ICST
: INRIA

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ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering) ICST, Brussels, Belgium, Belgium

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The development of a distributed simulator requires knowledge and skills that might be unavailable or difficult to acquire. Bringing model-driven approaches to the development of distributed simulators contributes to reduce both the need for specific skills and the development effort. To support this innovative development methodology, we introduce a layered simulation architecture named SimArch that allows to define simulation models that can be transparently transformed into simulation programs ready to be executed in a distributed (or local) mode.

SimArch defines layers of services at increasing levels of abstraction on top of the execution environment, thus allowing developers to build distributed simulators without explicit knowledge about the execution environment (local/distributed) and the specific distributed simulation infrastructure (e.g., HLA).

In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, SimArch has been provided with an Extended Queueing Network (EQN) simulation language, which has been applied to the development of an example distributed simulator in the computer network domain.

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