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Nowadays, many IT products are created as distributed solutions that consist of many parts, such as mobile applications, web-based back-ends, as well as APIs that connect various parts of the system. It is a crucial task to apply a suitable architecture to provide users of mobile applications with satisfactory operation, especially when the Internet connection is necessary to get or send some data. The simulation of network architecture and configuration using a high-level model of the system described with dedicated Domain-Specific Language (DSL), enabled by the Timed Colored Petri Nets (TCPNs) formalism is a beneficial approach that could be applied in real case studies. The already proven research method has been applied to one of the scenarios regarding the system offered by TITUTO Sp. z o.o. [Ltd.] company (Rzeszow, Poland). The first obtained results were not sufficiently precise for detailed analysis of the system. Thus, the case study was used to improve the simulation method in order to more accurately model data transmissions over the network. After modifications were implemented in the simulation tool, significantly better results have been received, as discussed in the paper.
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Rząsa, W., Jamro, M., Rzonca, D. (2017). Improving Accuracy of a Network Model Basing on the Case Study of a Distributed System with a Mobile Application and an API. In: Gaj, P., Kwiecień, A., Sawicki, M. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 718. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59767-6_2
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