A generic simulation model for evaluating concurrency control protocols in native XML database systems

In this paper we propose a generic simulation model, named XSM, with which researchers can construct standard platforms and evaluate their proposed concurrency control protocols for native XDBMSs. The system environment, the performance metrics, and the protocol rules of various types of XML protocols are all considered by the model. To facilitate the implementation of XSM, the state diagrams, the sequence diagrams, the component diagram, and the class diagram of XSM are depicted using UML 2.0 notations. We also show a simulation platform constructed from XSM to fairly and comprehensively evaluate the performance of various XML protocols.