MATLAB: I am working on queueing using Simulink Sim Events, and I need help on adding an attribute to the events.

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I want my events to have the time they were generated at the entity generator and the time their servicing was completed at the server as timestamps, so that I can calculate the difference between the two values. I started with SIMULINK as I found examples provided, and am open to other ways on implementing it

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Hi Biplav,
Have you tried using SimEvents blocks for this? With simEvents you can use an 'Entity Generator' block and a 'Entity Server' block to model your queueing system. You can add two attributes to the entity via the 'Entity Type' tab page in the 'Entity Generator' block and call them 'entryTime' and 'ExitTime' or something like that. You can add timeStamps by getting the current time and setting the appropriate attribute in the entity to the current time. For example, see inside the 'Design Patterns' in SimEvents for 'Time stamp entities upon generation'. You can use this pattern to time stamp entities in the geenrator. Similarly you can timestamp entities in the entity server's 'Service Complete' event action:
entity.ExitTime = stampEntity();
Then you can find the difference from these two values.
Hope that helps!
Regards,
Krishna
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