Quantitative stochastic simulation of telecommunication networks in DESC++

DESC++ (Discrete Event Simulation package using C++) has been developed as an object-oriented tool for quantitative simulation studies of communication protocols and architectures of telecommunication networks. The main issue of such performance studies is to secure proper statistical accuracy of the final simulation results. In DESC++ this problem has been solved by automating analysis of simulation output data, aimed at stopping simulation when the estimates reach the required level of precision. The package consists of various object classes. While some of them are responsible for on-line output data analysis, others allow simulation programs of telecommunication networks to be easily developed by re-using existing (sub)models. We discuss main design and implementational issues of DESC++, and illustrate them by an example. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd