BNETD

Overview

BNETD stands for "Bedienungsnetze der TU Dresden" (or something along the lines). It is a program to do simple analysis and simulation of queuing networks, written for DOS.

It is quite a historic piece of code, written in 1993/94. Someone asked me for that, so I have discovered that it still runs nicely on Windows boxes.

About BNETD

Graphical interface (text mode using Turbo Vision Library) to model open or closed queuing networks
- Built-in graphical editor to outline your model
- Supports multiple classes of jobs
- Supports different queueing strategies (FIFO, LIFO, priority) and fixed or unlimited queue size
- Supports different statistical distributions job arrival and service (normal, poisson / exponential, equally distributed and probably some more)
Simulation module to find out most relevant parameters of your model
Analysis module to solve a certain subset of models

The program itself is written in C++, running under DOS. As I said it runs on Win32 in the DOS window as well (maximize the window and use the 80x25 screen resolution).

If you plan to build it from the source, good luck. (You will need Borlands Turbo Vision pseudo graphics library)

Documentation

Documentation is available in the built-in help (in German); I had an english helpfile once -- I may try to find it if there is particular interest. The online help is quite extensive (if you read German).

Downloads


Download	Description
BNETD (german) DOS binary	Program binary
Helpfile (german)	Helpfile for context sensitive help (will be read by BNETD, despite the name it is not Windows Helpfile format).
Sample models	Simple examples.
Just everything (460 kByte) [zipped archive]	Containing binaries, source (C++) and some command line tools for testing random numbers and so on.
Research paper [PDF]	In German.

Martin Borriss , May 01 2007 .