Throughout the successive generations of information technology, the performance evaluation of software, computer architectures, and computer networks remains an important issue. In this book, top academic and industrial experts on system performance evaluation and its applications review the major issues now faced in this area. In a series of structured and focused chapters, they present advances 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 both in general and in the context of critical application such as nuclear reactor control and air transportation systems.
Introduction, I. Advances in Internet Network Performance, 1. Rate Adapters with Bursty Arrivals and Rational Rate Reduction: Queuing Analysis, 2. Internet Traffic: Periodicity, Tail Behavior, and Performance Implications, 3. A Generalization of a TCP Model: Multiple Source-Destination Case with Arbitrary LAN as the Access Network, II. Advances in ATM Networks, 4. A Virtual Path Routing Algorithm for ATM Networks Based on the Equivalent Bandwidth Concept, 5. Link Capacity Sharing Between Guaranteed and Best Effort Services, 6. QoS Management with Delays and Cell Drops, 7. Fluid Analysis of TCP Connections Over ABR VCs, 8. On the Exact Performance Analysis of Multicast Switches with Input Buffering, 9. Performance Evaluation of a Scene-Based Model for VBR MPEG Traffic, III. Traffic-Based System and Network Design, 10. Buffering vs. Smoothing for End-to-End QoS: Fundamental Issues and Comparison, 11. Analysis of a Time Division Multiplexing Method with Priorities, 12. Web Traffic Modeling and Performance Comparison Between HTTP1.0 and HTTP1.1, 13. Average Bandwidth and Delay for Reliable Multicast, 14. Time-Slot Allocation in Wireless TDMA, 15. Maintaining Connectivity for Mobile Computing Applications in Cellular Systems with Multiple Traffic Classes and Mixed Platform Types, 16. A Parallel Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Capacitated Network Design Problems, 17. A Unified Approach to the Analysis of Large-Scale Teletraffic Models, 18. MRE: A Robust Method of Inference for Finite Capacity Queues, IV. Advances in System Performance Methodologies, 19. PNiQ — A Concept for Performability Evaluation, 20. Performance Analysis of Multiclass Data Transfer Elements in Soft Real-Time Systems Using Semaphore Queues, 21. Hybrid Analysis of Non-Markovian Stochastic Petri Nets, 22. A Performance Model for SPADES Specifications, 23. Analysis of Commercial Workload on SMP Multiprocessors, V. System Performance and Reliability 347, 24. Bayesian Belief Networks for Safety Assessment of Computer-Based Systems, 25. Software Performance Validation Strategies, 26. Performance Validation at Early Stages of Software Development, 27. Impact of Workload Models in Evaluating the Performance of Distributed Web-Server Systems, 28. Validation in the European Air Traffic Management Program (EATMP), Index
