Application of Petri Nets to Communication Networks: Advances in Petri Nets

Carla Capellmann, Heinz Dibold, Uwe herzog (auth.), Jonathan Billington, Michel Diaz, Grzegorz Rozenberg (eds.)354065870X, 9783540658702

Petri nets offer a mathematically defined technique for the specification, design, analysis, verification and performance evaluation of concurrent distributed systems. They offer not only precise semantics and a theoretical foundation, but also a graphical form that facilitates the understanding of both information and control flow within the same formalism. As an intuitively appealing graphical form of presentation, Petri nets are the model of choice in various applications.
Communications networks, ranging from traditional telecommunication systems to advanced Internet-based information services, are inherently distributed and comprise systems with concurrently operating components. This volume presents a selection of the latest advances in the use of Petri nets for the modeling, analysis and management of communication networks and systems in the broadest sense of these terms.

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Table of contents :
Using high-level petri nets in the field of intelligent networks….Pages 1-36
The incremental modelling of the Z39.50 protocol with object petri nets….Pages 37-68
The modelling and analysis of IEEE 802.6’s configuration control protocol with coloured petri nets….Pages 69-92
Colored petri nets based modeling and simulation of the static and dynamic allocation policies of the asynchronous bandwidth in the fieldbus protocol….Pages 93-130
Parameter region for the proper operation of the IEEE 802.2 LLC type 3 protocol: A petri net approach….Pages 131-149
Timed petri net models of ATM LANs….Pages 150-175
Performance evaluation of polling-based communication systems using SPNs….Pages 176-209
Structural decomposition and serial solution of SPN models of the ATM GAUSS switch….Pages 210-231
COSTPN for Modeling and control of telecommunication systems….Pages 232-272
Stochastic colored petri net models for rainbow optical networks….Pages 273-303