The Discrete Event Systems Specification (DEVS) formalism specifies a discrete event system in a hierarchical, modular form. This paper presents a distributed simulation environment D-DEVSim++ for models specified by the DEVS formalism. D-DEVSim++ employs a new simulation scheme which is a hybrid algorithm of the hierarchical simulation and Time Warp mechanisms. The scheme can utilize both the hierarchical scheduling parallelism and the inherent parallelism of DEVS models. This hierarchical scheduling parallelism is investigated through analysis. Performance of the proposed methodology is evaluated through benchmark simulation on a 5-dimensional hypercube parallel machine.
The performance results indicate that the methodology can achieve significant speedup. Also, it is shown that the analyzed speedup for the hierarchical scheduling time corresponds the experiment.