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Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

DOI

10.3906/elk-1105-50

Abstract

Rare events are an important limitation of discrete-event simulation in some areas of applications. The existing rare-event simulation (RES) techniques, such as importance sampling (IS), splitting, and RESTART, have been used for RES so far. However, these techniques not only have some limitations, but also are not general or easy to use. In this paper, the partition of the region (PoR) method is used as a variance reduction technique in a new RES technique for usage with a wide range of modeling and simulation languages. Three variants of the proposed technique will be introduced: simple PoR, recursive PoR, and advanced PoR. Simple and recursive PoR methods are powerful techniques that have some important features such as bounded relative error; however, they are restricted to some specific models. Advanced PoR is a more general technique that integrates the PoR method and the IS technique. To evaluate the efficiency of the proposed technique and its variants, the comparative simulation results of some illustrative examples using stochastic activity networks will be presented.

Keywords

Rare-event simulation, variance reduction technique, partition of the region, simple partition of the region, recursive partition of the region, advanced partition of the region

First Page

309

Last Page

329

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