The design and implementation of a network virtual simulation system

With the rapid development of the network technology, a simulation based on web has been attracting more and more attention from academic and industrial field in recent years. Comparing with the traditional simulation environment, it has many advantages such as low cost, easy maintenance, portability and so on. To meet the new requirements of the simulation, this paper presents a web-based virtual simulation system based on the B/S architecture. A tradition simulation platform (MATLAB/Simulink) is directly ported to the web in this work with friendly user interface and a powerful simulation capacity. In order to improve the quality of the web user interface, AsWing which is a set of UI components that developed by the script of Flash: AcitonScript is utilized. The simulation task information is transferred from the user interface to the MySQL database through the Servlet. A center simulation platform (MATLAB/Simulink) is employed to reconstruct the simulation from the information stored in the database. The simulation result will be sent back to the database and the web user interface through the Internet. The whole structure of the proposed simulation environment was introduced in this work and a demonstration simulation result was given to show the performance of the provided system.