Design of a distributed simulator based on OPNs

• Published in: 1997 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems (Cat. No.97TH8335) Vol. 1; pp. 818 - 819 vol.1
• Main Authors: Bao Weidong, Sha Jichang, Luo Xueshan
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1997
• Subjects: Clocks; Computer integrated manufacturing; Discrete event simulation; Fires; Flexible manufacturing systems; Inference mechanisms; Large-scale systems; Monitoring; Testing; Workstations
• ISBN: 0780342534; 9780780342538
• DOI: 10.1109/ICIPS.1997.672904

In this paper, an object-oriented model description language OPDL, which is based on OPNs (Objective Petri Nets) is introduced. Then a basic algorithm of simulation based on OPDL models is presented. Finally, the implementation of a distributed simulator is proposed. The simulator can distribute the model objects on a Sun workstation network according to the distribution table defined by the user and coordinates the simulation of all objects.