Throughout successive generations of information technology, the importance of the performance evaluation of software, computer architectures, and computer networks endures. For example, the performance issues of transaction processing systems and redundant arrays of independent disks replace the virtual memory and input-output problems of the 70s. ATM performance issues supercede those associated with electronic telephony of the 70s.
As performance issues evolve with the technologies, so must our approach to evaluation. In System Performance Evaluation: Methodologies and Applications, top academic and industrial experts review the major issues now faced in this arena. In a series of structured, focused chapters, they present the state-of-the-art in performance methodologies and applications. They address developments in analytical modeling and its interaction with detailed analysis of measurement data. They also discuss performance evaluation methodologies for large-scale software systems - in general and in the context of critical applications, such as nuclear reactor control and air transportation systems.
With its particular emphasis on network performance for wireless networks, the Internet, and ATM networking, System Performance Evaluation becomes the ideal vehicle for professionals in computer architecture, networking, and software engineering to stay up-to-date and proficient in this essential aspect of information technology.
"...academic & industrial experts review major issues now faced in the field...they present advances in performance methodologies & applications...address developments in analytical modeling & performance evaluation."

Gelenbe, Erol, 1945- author

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March 24, 2000

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Throughout successive generations of information technology, the importance of the performance evaluation of software, computer architectures, and computer networks endures. For example, the performance issues of transaction processing systems and redundant arrays of independent disks replace the virtual memory and input-output problems of the 70s. ATM performance issues supersede those associated with electronic telephony of the 70s. As performance issues evolve with the technologies, so must our approach to evaluation. In System Performance Evaluation: Methodologies and Applications, top academic and industrial experts review the major issues now faced in this arena. In a series of structured, focused chapters, they present the state-of-the-art in performance methodologies and applications. They address developments in analytical modeling and its interaction with detailed analysis of measurement data. They also discuss performance evaluation methodologies for large-scale software systems - in general and in the context of critical applications, such as nuclear reactor control and air transportation systems. With its particular emphasis on network performance for wireless networks, the Internet, and ATM networking, System Performance Evaluation becomes the ideal vehicle for professionals in computer architecture, networking, and software engineering to stay up-to-date and proficient in this essential aspect of information technology
ADVANCES IN INTERNET NETWORK PERFORMANCE -- Rate Adapters with Bursty Arrivals and Rational Rate Reduction: Queueing Analysis -- Internet Traffic: Periodically, Tail Behavior and Performance Implications -- A Generalization of a TCP Model: Multiple Source-Destination Case with Arbitrary LAN as the Access Network -- ADVANCES IN ATM NETWORKS -- A Virtual Path Routing Algorithm for ATM Networks Based on the Equivalent Bandwidth Concept -- Link Capacity Sharing Between Guaranteed and Best Effort Services -- QoS Management with Delays and Cell Drops -- Fluid Analysis of TCP Connections over ABR VCs -- On the Exact Performance Analysis of Multicast Switches with Input Buffering -- Performance Evaluation of a Scene-Base Model for VBR MPEG Traffic -- TRAFFIC BASED SYSTEM AND NETWORK DESIGN -- Buffering vs. Smoothing for End-to-End QoS: Fundamental Issues and Comparison -- Analysis o f a Time Division Multiplexing Method with Priorities -- Web Traffic Modeling and Performance Comparison between HTTP1.0 and HTTP1.1 -- Average Bandwidth and Delay for Reliable Multicast -- Time-Slot Allocation in Wireless TDMA -- Maintaining Connectivity for Mobile Computing Applications in Cellular Systems with Multiple Traffic Classes and Mixed Platform Types -- A Parallel Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Capacitated Network Design Problems -- A Unified Approach to the Analysis of Large-Scale Teletraffic Models -- MRE: A Robust Method of Inference for Finite Capacity Queues -- ADVANCES IN SYSTEM PERFORMANCE METHODOLOGIES -- PniQ-A Concept for Performability Evaluation -- Performance Analysis of Multi-Class Data Transfer Elements in Soft Real-Time Systems using Semaphore Queues -- Hybrid Analysis of Non-Markovian Stochastic Petri Nets -- A Performance Model for SPADES Specifications -- Analysis of Commercial Workload on SMP Multiprocessors -- SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY -- Bayesian Belief Networks for Safety Assessment of Computer-Based Systems -- Software Performance Validation Strategies -- Performance Validation at Early Stages of Software Development -- Impact of Workload Models in Evaluating the Performance of Distributed Web-Server Systems -- Validation in the European Air Traffic Management Programme (EATMP)

"In System Performance Evaluation: Methodologies and Applications, top academic and industrial experts review the major issues now faced in this arena. In a series of structured, focused chapters, they present the state-of-the-art in performance methodologies and applications. They address developments in analytical modeling and its interaction with detailed analysis of measurement data.
They also discuss performance evaluation methodologies for large-scale software systems in general and in the context of critical applications." "With its particular emphasis on network performance for wireless networks, the Internet, and ATM networking, System Performance Evaluation becomes the ideal vehicle for professionals in computer architecture, networking, and software engineering to stay up-to-date and proficient in this essential aspect of information technology."--BOOK JACKET.

Computer scientists from many countries discuss performance evaluation methodologies for large scale software systems both in general and in the context of critical applications such as nuclear reactor control and air transport systems, emphasizing network performance both in the Internet and in novel asynchronous transfer mode networking. The topics of the 28 papers include electronic commerce, regulating network traffic to provide better performance, designing new protocols to take advantage of local area networks from which many networks are accessed, and special requirements such as real-time.

Abstract In ATM-based communication networks, the transmission links that interconnect the network nodes do not necessarily operate at the same transmission speeds.

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