Constructing accurate animal behavior models often requires close interaction between a diverse group of domain experts in fields such as biology, ecology, modeling and simulation. To ease the effort and time involved in creating these models, we ...

This paper presents the first version of a Wireless Sensor Network simulator, called CupCarbon. It is a multi-agent and discrete event Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) simulator. Networks can be designed and prototyped in an ergonomic user-friendly ...

This paper addresses the problems related to data types used for time representation in DEVS, a formalism for the specification and simulation of discrete-event systems. When evaluating a DEVS simulation model into an actual computer simulation program, ...

Hardware accelerators in networking systems for control algorithms offer a promising approach to scale performance. To that end, several research efforts have been devoted to verify a hardware version of complex control algorithms but only for small-...

Currently, new storage technologies which unite the latency and byte-addressability of DRAM with the persistence of disks are being developed. This non-volatile memory (NVRAM) may start a software revolution. Traditionally, software was developed for ...

Verification is an important step in the development of real-time embedded systems. The validation of a real-time system uses a timing accurate simulator and, when the actual binary code is used, a cycle accurate simulator (CAS). However, a CAS is slow ...

Experiments with wireless sensor networks have shown that asymmetric and unidirectional links are common. For this reason, we developed different routing protocols that can use unidirectional links, either implicitly or explicitly.

However, developing ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a detailed and sequential methodology in industrial processes improvement using simulation models. In order to strengthen this academic approach, its application is explained through a case study developed in a ...

Developing a model for simulation is an art and a science. The question is how this process can be suitably supported. Integrating workflows into simulation systems promises user guidance, documentation and reproducibility of this process. However, the ...

The task of properly modelling the physical (PHY) layer constitutes the most challenging endeavor in wireless networks simulation. Unfortunately, today, the majority of the wireless sensor network (WSN) simulators consider a simple model for the PHY ...

Analyzing simulation algorithm performance is cumbersome: execute some runs, observe a performance metric, and analyze the results. Often, the results motivate follow-up experiments, which in turn may lead to additional experiments, and so on. This time-...

Multi-modeling and co-simulation are one of the solutions for dealing with complex systems. In this paper, we propose to apply the AA4MM framework to the co-simulation of a smart space heating "complex" environment with 2 objectives. Our first ...

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) organisation has published a bluebook for the 2nd generation of satellite return link specification, DVB-RCS2. Also, the evolution of DVB-S2, currently called DVB-Sx, is in standardization process. Simulations have ...

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a new networking paradigm proposing a shift of the main network abstraction from host identifiers to location-agnostic content identifiers. So far, several architectures have been proposed implementing this ...

In this paper we describe a simulation platform, POPSIM, targeting the modeling and simulation of human populations in urban environments. POPSIM employs an agent-based modeling approach where individuals are intuitively represented by autonomous agents ...

This paper presents an analysis framework based on virtual prototyping to support the comprehensive evaluation of distributed, network based automotive applications. The framework enables functional and timing verification, performance and reliability ...

Discrete event simulations (DES) represent the status quo for many different types of simulations. There are still open challenges, such as designing distributed simulation architectures, providing development and debugging support, or analyzing and ...

Integrating realistic behavior of end systems into simulations is challenging since the mechanisms used in protocols and applications such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are complex and continuously evolving. In this paper, we present VMSimInt, ...

Parallelization is crucial for efficient execution of large-scale network simulation. Today's computing clusters commonly used for that purpose are built from a large amount of multi-processor machines. The traditional approach to utilize all CPU cores ...

In this paper, we propose a stochastic bursty-link model to simulate bursty behavior observed in wireless communications. Our stochastic bursty-link model works at the frame level where the probability of correctly receiving a frame is dependent on the ...