Simulation Modeling Examples

Simple Simulation Example

A programming tool that provides a programming approach can be evaluated by how easy it is for a user with no experience to make the first step.

In traditional programming languages, the simplest example is printing "Hello, world!" to the screen. In discrete-event simulation, however, such an example should be represented by a model. Therefore, the simplest suitable model is selected.

A single-server loss system is a suitable model. In this system, entities arrive at a single server according to a Poisson process, so the interarrival time is exponentially distributed. The service time is also exponentially distributed.

This is a classic example of the simplest system of queuing theory. It should be noted that this is a degenerate (edge) case, since there is no queue in this system. According to Kendall's notation, this is an M/M/1/1 system.

Here is a block simulation model of the M/M/1/1 loss system.

Alternatively: a Simula-like simulation model of the same system.