A Cosimulation Framework for a Distributed System of Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we present a simple but powerful solution to combine two different simulation environments - SystemC and OMNeT++ - enabling a cosimulation framework for modeling and simulating a distributed system of systems. It is therefore possible to utilize the strengths and preliminary work of OMNeT++ in the field of communication networks and SystemC in modeling hardware entities. We use a socket solution based on standard RPC mechanisms with the possibility to connect the simulation environments over the Internet. Besides the cosimulation interface itself, we show performance and resource utilization measurements of this solution.