Hardware in the loop simulation of generic nodes using Lontalk

Designing a dependable network for a highly sustainable system gives a challenging network design problem. The network must be highly adaptive to the changes in the network environment. It should also sustain any damages occurring in the network and recover itself quickly and efficiently. This thesis ultimately maps a real network to simulated network by developing a concept of generic nodes and experimentally investigates different parameters that affects the reliability of the system. The work includes designing a simulation for generation of network traffic in a simulated network and studying the behavior of the network with different parameters. The experiment helped us in determining the optimum values of these parameters. For the selected set of experiments and further implies that simulation can determine the nodes different parameter in a control network and will result in a Dependable system.