MANUFACTURING NETWORKS - A DISCRETE-TIME PETRI TYPE NETWORK FOR MODELING SYNCHRONIZATION AND SERIALIZATION

A class of discrete time stochastic Petri nets, called Manufacturing N etworks, is studied in this paper. They are particularly suited for mo deling synchronization and serialization. Applications include modelin g for layered architecture software synchronization and serialization, multihop radio network path modeling and manufacturing system modelin g. Since manufacturing networks are, in general, analytically intracta ble, a variety of special cases are examined. An iterative algorithm, based on one developed previously for space division packet switches, is applied to the particular case of multihop radio network modeling.