A Causality Error Prevention Scheme In The Hybrid Simulation

혼합시뮬레이션에서의 인과관계 오류 해결방안

A hybrid simulation model consists of real physical entities as well as simulated ones. It also contains logical processes for decision making for each operation units, a group of the entities. During the execution of such simulations, the physical and the logical processes consume real clock time while the activity durations of the simulated ones are generated. Due to the inherent chracteristics of the subjects of the communication channels. Since one can not undo an real event already taken place, the traditional central clock approach is used for the synchronization of the events(Kim[6]). However, there are still chances of causality errors due to the randomness in the communication delays. This error is not found in the distributed pure simulations. This paper explains the error in details and proposes a prevention scheme that is simple to implement.