METHOD OF TRANSACTIONAL SIMULATION OF A GENERIC COMMUNICATION NODE MODEL, AND THE CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND STORAGE MEANS

A method of transactional simulation of a generic communication node model is proposed. The method includes steps, performed at each simulation step corresponding to transaction start events and transaction end events, including: calculating a remaining quantity of data to be transmitted for each transaction not completed in a list of current transactions; if the simulation step corresponds to the start of a new transaction, calculating a quantity of data to be transmitted for the new transaction and adding the new transaction to the list of current transaction; if the simulation step corresponds to the end of the transaction, removing the transaction from the list of current transactions; allocating throughputs to the current transactions, according to a predetermined node sharing policy; calculating a duration up to the closest end time of one of the current transactions; and assigning a wait for the duration before generation of the next transaction end event.