Sending Messages

• Asynchronous buffered communication

• Message time-stamp (T)

  • default: current simulation clock (T = simclock())
  • user may specify future values (T = simclock() + ts )

• Message placed in destination message buffer at T

• Transmission time may be modeled by

  • the sender by specifying an appropriate ëreceive timeí for the message
  • by the receiver
  • using a separate entity(ies) to model the channel

    • bus-bases, point-point, wireless (with & without interference effects)

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