Programme Performance Modeling Of Computer Systems And Networks:

•    Introduction to modelling:

            – performance evaluation and modelling techniques

•     Queueing systems

– single and multi resources systems

•     Analytical models:

– basic results

– the Operational approach

– product forms, Markov processes

•     Simulation models:

– trace driven, event driven, next event

– statistical methods for output analysis

•     Applications:

 

– server farms

– wireless networks and internet applications

– resource allocation

– QoS management

 

REFERENCE BOOKS

M. Harchol-Balter

Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems

Cambridge, University Press, 2013

 

Lawrence M. Leemis, Sthephen K. Park

Discrete-Event Simulation - A first course,

Pearson Education Prentice Hall, 2006.