network
Class Source

java.lang.Object
  network.Node
      network.Source

public class Source
extends Node

A Source node injects customers into a queueing network. The inter-arrival time (a DistributionSampler) must be specified. Arrivals may optionally be batched, with the batch size specified by a second DistributionSampler.

Field Summary

protected DistributionSampler	batchsize
protected DistributionSampler	delay

Constructor Summary

Source(java.lang.String name, DistributionSampler d)

Source(java.lang.String name, DistributionSampler d, DistributionSampler b)

Method Summary

protected Customer

buildCustomer() Builds a new customer.

Methods inherited from class network.Node

accept, displayResults, enter, forward, getId, getName, logResults, resetMeasures, setLink, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

delay

protected DistributionSampler delay

batchsize

protected DistributionSampler batchsize

Constructor Detail

Source

public Source(java.lang.String name,
              DistributionSampler d)

Parameters:

name - The name of the source node

d - The DistributionSampler used to generate the inter-arrival times

Source

public Source(java.lang.String name,
              DistributionSampler d,
              DistributionSampler b)

Parameters:

name - The name of the source node

d - The DistributionSampler used to generate the inter-arrival times

b - The DistributionSampler used to generate the batch sizes

Method Detail

buildCustomer

protected Customer buildCustomer()

Builds a new customer. This can be overridden to support specialised Customer subclasses.

Returns:

a customer