Implementação e validação de componentes para a construção de ambientes de simulação de redes TCP/IP.

Abstract

Studies and analysis of computation and data communication systems could be complex due to the great amount of resources to be considered and their relationship. As new technologies appear more detailed studies and analysis are required. The dynamic of these systems depends on event occurrence. Simulation event-driven tools are frequently chosen for aiding studies and analysis of those systems. In the software development process of those tools software components can facilitate the software reuse increasing the efficiency of this process. This work, specifies and implements two types of components for building simulation tools: components for constructing event-driven simulation tools (such as simulated clock, randon value generators, event list, simulation flow control) and another components for simulating TCP/IP computer networks basic elements (such as packet sources, hosts, routers and links). As a case of study, a simulation tool was constructed. The work adopts JavaBeans technology, Unified Modeling Language (UML) for specification the components and Jbuilder as development tool. Finally, the components construted in this work can be reused to build any event-driven simulation tool.