Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: Techniques and Tools

This book presents the tutorial lectures given by leading experts in the area at the IFIP WG 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation, Performance 2002, held in Rome, Italy in September 2002.The survey papers presented are devoted to theoretical and methodological advances in performance and reliability evaluation as well as new perspectives in the major application fields. Modeling and verification issues, solution methods, workload characterization, and benchmarking are addressed from the methodological point of view. Among the applications dealt with are hardware and software architectures, wired and wireless networks, grid environments, Web services, and real-time voice and video processing.This book is intended to serve as a state-of-the-art survey and reference for students, scientists, and engineers active in the area of performance and reliability evaluation.

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G-Networks: Multiple Classes of Positive Customers, Signals, and Product Form Results.- Spectral Expansion Solutions for Markov-Modulated Queues.- M/G/1-Type Markov Processes: A Tutorial.- An Algorithmic Approach to Stochastic Bounds.- Dynamic Scheduling via Polymatroid Optimization.- Workload Modeling for Performance Evaluation.- Capacity Planning for Web Services Techniques and Methodology.- End-to-End Performance of Web Services.- Benchmarking.- Benchmarking Models and Tools for Distributed Web-Server Systems.- Stochastic Process Algebra: From an Algebraic Formalism to an Architectural Description Language.- Automated Performance and Dependability Evaluation Using Model Checking.- Measurement-Based Analysis of System Dependability Using Fault Injection and Field Failure Data.- Software Reliability and Rejuvenation: Modeling and Analysis.- Performance Validation of Mobile Software Architectures.- Performance Issues of Multimedia Applications.- Markovian Modeling of Real Data Traffic: Heuristic Phase Type and MAP Fitting of Heavy Tailed and Fractal Like Samples.- Optimization of Bandwidth and Energy Consumption in Wireless Local Area Networks.- Service Centric Computing - Next Generation Internet Computing.- European DataGrid Project: Experiences of Deploying a Large Scale Testbed for E-science Applications.