The paper describes the main agents, with their components and process diagrams, of the developed simulation model of the functioning of the distributed information processing system, created in the AnyLogic software environment. A method for constructing models with self-similar traffic is described. The article also presents a method for obtaining real (reference) indicators of the average response time of the system to user requests. The results of numerical experiments on the created models of the functioning of distributed information processing systems with self-similar traffic are presented. The main conclusions about the performed experiments are presented.

Keywords: distributed information processing system, self-similar flow, average system response time, simulation, object-oriented concept, agent-based and discrete-event modeling