GENESIS: A Graphical Environment for the Modeling and Performance Analysis of Protocols in Multiple Access Networks

摘要

The development of computer simulation programs for modeling and evaluating computer communication networks represents a significant software development effort and can be very costly in terms of the effort required to build, verify, modify and maintain these programs. Our work described in this report is part of the on-going research to reduce this effort in the system development process. Here we discuss our current efforts on the design, development and implementation of GENESIS, an interactive, high-level, graphics-oriented environment for constructing and evaluating simulation performance models of multiple access computer communication networks and protocols. We will focus on modeling language considerations and channel modeling mechanisms of GENESIS in this paper.