Application of Petri Nets to Communication Networks
Contributors: Jonathan Billington (Editor); Michel Diaz (Editor); Grzegorz Rozenberg (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9783540658702
Subjects: Computer Communications & Networking; Programming - Software Development; Distributed processing; Computer networks; Science/Mathematics; Information Storage & Retrieval; Computer Mathematics; Distributed Computer Systems; Computers; Computers - General Information; Data Processing - General; Client-Server Computing - General; Networking - General; Computers / Networking / General; Electronic data processing; Computer Science; Petri nets
First sentence: Today's telecommunication networks are facing the additional requirement to provide the ability to collect and compute information, i.e. to provide network intelligence, in addition to the classical transmission and switching functions.
Description: 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.