Modeling Internet Applications with Event Graphs

Abstract

Event graph is a way of graphically representing discrete-event simulation models, which uses a single type of nodes along with two kinds of edges to describe the logics among discrete events. Although it is simple enough, event graph is extremely powerful, which can apply graph directly to model of event lists. Therefore, it rapidly becomes an ideal tool to model and prototype simulation models. In this paper, event graph models for WWW, FTP simulations are proposed. As far as we know, this is the first attempt to model typical Internet applications by using event graph models.