Quantitative Evaluation of Computing and Communication Systems

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation (Performance Tools '95) and of the 8th GI/ITG Conference on Measuring, Modelling and Evaluating Computing and Communication Systems, MMB '95, held jointly in Heidelberg, Germany in September 1995.
The volume presents 26 full refereed papers selected from a total of 86 submissions, together with two invited contributions. The scope of the papers includes measurement- and model-based approaches for quantitative systems assessment, reports on theoretical and methodological progress, and novel and improved assessment techniques and their tool implementations and applications.

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Evaluation of a CPU scheduling mechanism for synchronized multimedia streams.- An application of SMART2: A tool for performance evaluation of relational database programs.- Measuring Fault Tolerance with the FTAPE fault injection tool.- Queueing analysis of discrete-time buffer systems with compound arrival process and variable service capacity.- The method of moments for higher moments and the usefulness of formula manipulation systems.- Integration of performance evaluations in the design process of CPUs and computer systems.- Information requirements for software performance engineering.- Integrating behavioural and simulation modelling.- Assessment of 3rd generation mobile systems by simulation.- How good is stationary analysis for the transient phenomena of connection admission in ATM?.- On the exact and approximate analysis of hierarchical discrete time queueing networks.- Steady state analysis of Markov Regenerative SPN with age memory policy.- A new iterative method for solving Large-Scale Markov chains.- A new iterative numerical solution algorithm for Markovian queueing networks.- Transient analysis of deterministic and stochastic Petri nets with TimeNET.- QPN-Tool for the specification and analysis of hierarchically combined Queueing Petri nets.- Approximate analysis of networks of PH¦PH|1¦K queues: Theory & tool support.- Speedy: An integrated performance extrapolation tool for pC++ Programs.- HASSE: a tool for analyzing causal relationships in parallel and distributed systems.- PerPreT A performance prediction tool for massively parallel systems.- Compile-time performance prediction of parallel systems.- Workload models for multiwindow distributed environments.- Building a hierarchical CAN-simulator using an object-oriented environment.-Performance-oriented development of irregular, unstructured and unbalanced parallel applications in the N-MAP environment.- Performance engineering of distributed software process architectures.- Performance evaluation of connectionless multicast protocols for cooperative multimedia applications.- Modeling relaxed memory consistency protocols.- Measurement, modelling and emulation of internet round-trip delays.