Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems

by Mohammed S. Obaidat; Noureddine A. Boudriga

• ISBN13: 9780470567197
• ISBN10: 0470567198
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Summary

This book presents all techniques of performance evaluation of computers, networks, and telecommunications in a balanced manner. It is unique in that no other book covers all of the techniques, nor do they treat computer and telecommunications systems as inseparable issues, which the author does here. This book fills a gap by providing the only singular, all-encompassing textbook on the subject.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Basic Concepts

Background

Performance Evaluation Viewpoints and Concepts

Goals of Performance Evaluation

Applications of Performance Evaluation

Techniques

Metrics of Performance

Workload characterization

Benchmarking

Summary

Exercises

Probability Theory Review

Basic Concepts on Probability Theory

Sample Space and Events

Conditional Probability and Independence

Mean and Median use

Geometric, and Harmonic Mean

Variance, and Standard Deviation

Random Variables

Expectation and Variance

Density and Distribution Functions

Comparing Systems Using Sample Data

Regression Models

Summary

Exercises

Measurement/Testing Technique

Event and Measurement Strategies

Event Tracing

Hardware Monitor

Software Monitors

Hybrid Monitors

Traffic Issues and Solutions

Accounting Logs

Summary

Exercises

Benchmarking and Capacity Planning

Types of Benchmark Programs

Common Mistakes in Benchmarking

Example Benchmark Programs

Procedures of Capacity planning

Problems in Capacity Planning

Summary

Exercises

Data Representation and Game Ratio

Guidelines for Preparing Plots

Charts Used for Data Presentation

Program Profiling

Common Mistakes in Charts Construction

Errors in Experimental Measurements

Summary

Exercises

Basics of Queueing Theory

Introduction

Queueing Modeling Notations

Rules for all Queues

Single-Queue, Single (M/M/ 1) System

Single-Queue, Multiple Server (M/M/c) System

Other Queues

Little's Law

Summary

Exercises

Queueing Networks

Definitions

Open Queueing Networks

Closed Queueing Networks

Product-Form Queueing Networks

Case Studies

Exercises

Operational and Mean Value Analysis

Utilization Law

Little's Formula

Forced Flow Law

Interactive Response Time Law

Bottleneck Analysis

Standard Mean Value Analysis (MVA)

Scheweitzer's Approximation of MVA

Balanced Job Bounds

Introduction to the Simulation Technique

Simulation Types

Terminology

Random Number Generation Techniques

Linear Congruential Generators

Mixed Generators

Tausworthe Generators

Extended Fibonici Generators

Survey of Commonly Used Random Number Generators

Seed Selections

Testing Random Number Generators

Random Variate Generation Techniques

Inverse Transformation

Rejection

Characterization

Convolution

Composition

Examples

Exercises

Commonly Used Distributions in Simulation and Their Applications

Exponential

Posisson

Uniform

Normal

Weibull

Pareto

Geometric

Gamma

Erlang

Beta

Binomial

Bernoulli

Chi-Square

F Distribution

Log Normal

Pascal

Student's t Distribution

Examples

Exercises

Analysis of Simulation Outputs

Introduction

Vérification Techniques

Validation techniques

Techniques for Transient Removal

Techniques for Termination of Simulation and Stopping Criteria

Exercises

Simulation Software

General Purpose Languages

Simulation languages

Object-Oriented languages

Standard Object-Oriented Languages

Objected-oriented Simulation Languages

Simulation Packages Used for Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems

Case Studies

Exercises

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