Modeling System Architecture and Resource Constraints Using Discrete-Event Simulation

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Optimizing system resource utilization is a key design objective for system engineers in communications, electronics, and other industries. System resources such as processors, memory, or bandwidth on a communication bus are often shared by various components in the system. To understand the utilization of a shared resource, system engineers must identify constraints on the resource, such as number of processors and memory size, and analyze the effect of input traffic or load on the shared resource.

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