Towards Reuse of Synchronization Algorithms in Co-simulation Frameworks

An immediate industry challenge is to fashion a co-simulation that replicates real-systems behaviour with high fidelity. To achieve this goal, developers rely on frameworks to enhance the creation and analysis of the co-simulation. One major problem is that new co-simulation frameworks require extensive development, most of which resides in non-essential functionalities, before they can be used in practice. Additionally, existing co-simulations demand a thorough understanding before they can be extended.Our vision is a modular co-simulation framework architecture, that is easily extensible by researchers, and can integrate existing and legacy co-simulation approaches. The architecture we propose permits extension at three levels, each providing different degrees of flexibility. The most flexible integration level involves the specification of a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for Master Algorithms (MAs), and this paper sketc.hes such a DSL, and illustrates how it is expressive enough to describe well-known MAs.