Re: Separate RNG streams ...

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:43:31 CDT, Jim Martin wrote: 
>Hi,
>
>According to the documentation, "... a user who wants to generate the
>same traffic (based on some random process) in 2 different simulation
>experiments that compare different dropping algorithms that are
>themselves based on random processes may choose
>to base the traffic generation on one random number stream and the
>dropping algorithms on another stream."
>
>I want to do this.  For example,  I need to have a pareto traffic source
>use a separate RNG object.  The RandomVariable object handles this with
>the 'use-rng', however I don't see a way for  the POO_Traffic object to
>support this (without changing the code).  Have I  missed something ???

You are correct, you need to change the code.

   -John Heidemann