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Due to its ability to support temporal issues of systems, discrete event simulation is widely applicable to real-time system design. This paper presents a methodology for the modeling and simulation of time-constrained message routing policies for hypercube interconnected real-time systems. The methodology is based on a framework called the DEVS (discrete event systems specification) formalism which supports modular and hierarchical specification of discrete event models. Within the methodology, we first develop DEVS specification for models for hypercube computers and experimental frames to measure the performance of alternative message routing policies. We then implement such specification in DEVSIM++, a C++-based modeling/simulation environment that implements the DEVS formalism. Simulations of various message routing policies are performed, and the performances of such policies are compared.
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Ahn, M.S., Kim, T.G. DEVS methodology for evaluating time-constrained message routing policies. Discrete Event Dyn Syst 3, 173–192 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01439848
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