ISBN: 3-540-67193-5
TITLE: Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions
AUTHOR: Haring, Gnter; Lindemann, Christoph; Reiser, Martin (Eds.)
TOC:

Position Paper
Performance Evaluation in Industry: A Personal Perspective 3
Stephen S. Lavenberg, Mark S. Squillante
I Topical Area Papers
Mainframe Systems 17
Jeffrey P. Buzen
Performance Analysis of Storage Systems 33
Elizabeth Shriver, Bruce K. Hillyer, Avi Silberschatz
Ad Hoc, Wireless, Mobile Networks: The Role of Performance Modeling and Evaluation 51
Mario Gerla, Manthos Kazantzidis, Guangyu Pei, Fabrizio Talucci, Ken Tang
Trace-Driven Memory Simulation: A Survey 97
Richard A. Uhlig, Trevor N. Mudge
Performance Issues in Parallel Processing Systems 141
Luiz A. DeRose, Mario Pantano, Daniel A. Reed, Jeffrey S. Vetter
Measurement-Based Analysis of Networked System Availability 161
Ravishankar K. Iyer, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Mahesh Kalyanakrishnan
Performance of Client/Server Systems 201
Daniel A. Menasc, Virgilio A. F. Almeida
Performance Characteristics of the World Wide Web 219
Mark E. Crovella
Parallel Job Scheduling: A Performance Perspective 233
Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons
Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks with Complex Constraints 253
Seonho Choi, Ashok K. Agrawala
Software Performance Evaluation by Models 283
Murray Woodside
Performance Analysis of Database Systems 305
Alexander Thomasian
Performance Analysis of Concurrency Control Methods 329
Alexander Thomasian
Numerical Analysis Methods 355
William J. Stewart
Product Form Queueing Networks 377
Simonetta Balsamo
Stochastic Modeling Formalisms for Dependability, Performance and Performability 403
Katerina Go seva-Popstojanova, Kishor Trivedi
Analysis and Application of Polling Models 423
Hideaki Takagi
Discrete-Event Simulation in Performance Evaluation 443
David M. Nicol
Workload Characterization Issues and Methodologies 459
Maria Calzarossa, Luisa Massari, Daniele Tessera
II Personal Accounts of Key Contributors
From the Central Server Model to BEST/1(c) 485
Jeffrey P. Buzen
Mean Value Analysis: A Personal Account 491
Martin Reiser
The Early Days of GSPNs 505
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Gianfranco Balbo, Gianni Conte
The Discovery of Self-similar Traffic 513
Walter Willinger
Author Index 529
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