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http://dx.doi.org/10.9709/JKSS.2010.19.2.157

SDL-OPNET Co-Simulation Technique for the Development of Communication Protocols with an Integrated Approach to Functional Verification and Performance Evaluation  

Yang, Qi-Ping (금오공과대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
Kim, Tae-Hyong (금오공과대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
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Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation / v.19, no.2, 2010 , pp. 157-164 More about this Journal
Abstract
While both functional verification and performance evaluation of a system are necessary for the development of effective and reliable communication systems, they have been usually performed individually through functional modeling with formal language tools and performance modeling with professional network performance evaluation tools, respectively. However, separate and duplicated modeling of a system may cause increase of the cost and inconsistency between the models. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes an integrated design technique that estimates the performance of a communication protocol designed in SDL with SDL-OPNET co-simulation. The proposed technique presents how to design a co-simulation system with the environment functions of Tau and the external system module of OPNET. InRes protocol was used as an example to show the applicability and usefulness of the proposed technique.
Keywords
Functional verification; Performance evaluation; SDL; OPNET; Co-simulation;
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