HIGH-SPEED SIMULATION OF DISCRETE-EVENT SYSTEMS BY MIXING PROCESS-ORIENTED AND EQUATIONAL APPROACHES

This paper shows how the Prosit system, a new C + +-based framework fo r both sequential and distributed discrete event simulation, developed at INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, makes an easy and efficient integration of classical discrete event simulation and of new high speed simulation techniques based on evolution equations possible. This demonstrates in particular the feasibility of distributed simulations involving simul ators of different nature. Important applications of these techniques may be found in the simulation of communication switches, as illustrat ed in an example.