Symmetric Stochastic Petri Nets.

Abstract

A stochastic Petri net (SPN) provides a means for formal specification of a discrete event simulation. This document focuses on SPN's with special structure and define a symmetric SPN. Exploiting properties of a symmetric SPN and underlying regenerative process structure, the authors establish steady state estimation procedures based on independent, nonidentically distributed blocks. These results lead to efficient simulation methods for delay/throughput characteristics of ring networks. Additional keywords: statistical efficiency; estimates. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA158348

Entities

People

  • G. S. Shedler
  • L. A. Prisgrove

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Access Time
  • Clocks
  • Distribution Functions
  • Equations
  • Intervals
  • Local Area Networks
  • Markov Chains
  • Markov Processes
  • Operations Research
  • Petri Nets
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Ring Networks
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Steady State
  • Stochastic Processes

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