| | Event Driven Simulation Tutorial |
 | | If only 50 of these events actually occur, it is still necessary to examine all 1000 "units of time" in the exhaustive simulation, whereas in the event driven simulation, you only examine the 50 changes of state to the system resulting from events occurring to/in that system. |
 | | Event driven simulations lend themselves so well to network protocol simulations because to quantify time - so that the simulation can exhaustively look at every distinct moment of time - results in such a large amount of processing overhead that the simulation takes far too long. |
 | | For example, if there is a possibility that system loading is such that there could be 1000 events in a second, then "time" must be quantified into pieces each 0.001 seconds long, and each of these 1000 units of time must be examined during the simulation to see if an event has occurred. |
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