Design, realization and evaluation of a component-based, compositional network simulation environment

Simulation

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 159-181

  Tyan, Hung Ying ^a   Sobeih, Ahmed ^b   Hou, Jennifer C ^b  

^a Google Inc   (Japan)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Component architecture; Event driven simulation; J Sim; Network simulation; Process driven simulation; Software component

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE; EVENT-DRIVEN SIMULATION; J-SIM; NETWORK SIMULATION; PROCESS-DRIVEN SIMULATION; SOFTWARE COMPONENT;

ADHESIVE JOINTS; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; REUSABILITY; SIMULATORS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 65249176835     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: 17413133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549708099998     Document Type: Article

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