Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems

This volume contains the complete set of tutorial papers presented at the 16th IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance Modelling, Measurement and Evaluation, and a number of tutorial papers presented at the 1993 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Special Interest Group METRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. The principal goal of the volume is to present an overview of recent results in the field of modeling and performance evaluation of computer and communication systems. The wide diversity of applications and methodologies included in the tutorials attests to the breadth and richness of current research in the area of performance modeling. The tutorials may serve to introduce a reader to an unfamiliar research area, to unify material already known, or simply to illustrate the diversity of research in the field. The extensive bibliographies guide readers to additional sources for further reading.

Inhalt
Parallel simulation.- Properties and analysis of queueing network models with finite capacities.- Performance analysis and optimization with the power-series algorithm.- Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs): Protocols, modeling and performance evaluation.- Multiprocessor and distributed system design: The integration of functional specification and performance analysis using Stochastic Process Algebras.- Response time distributions in queueing network models.- Fast simulation of rare events in queueing and reliability models.- An introduction to modeling dynamic behavior with time series analysis.- Issues in trace-driven simulation.- Maximum entropy analysis of queueing network models.- Performance modeling using DSPNexpress.- Relaxation for massively parallel discrete event simulation.- The BMAP/G/1 queue: A tutorial.- An overview of TES processes and modeling methodology.- Performance engineering of client-server systems.- Queueing networks with finite capacities.- Real time systems: A tutorial.- Performance instrumentation techniques for parallel systems.- A survey of bottleneck analysis in closed networks of queues.- Software performance engineering.- Performance measurement using system monitors.- Providing quality of service in packet switched networks.- Dependability and performability analysis.- Architectures and algorithms for digital multimedia on-demand servers.- Analysis and control of polling systems.- Modeling and analysis of transaction processing systems.