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- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.1 Evolution of computer systems architectures
- 1.2 Evolution of database systems
- 1.3 Evolution of operating systems
- 1.4 Evolution of computer networks
- 1.5 Need for performance evaluation
- 1.6 Role of performance evaluation in computer engineering
- 1.7 Overview of performance evaluation methods
- 1.8 Performance metrics and evaluation criteria
- Chapter 2: Computer Data Processing Hardware Architecture
- 2.2 Computer hardware architecture
- 2.3 CPU architectures
- 2.4 IO architectures
- 2.5 Secondary storage and peripheral devices and architectures
- 2.6 Distributed and network architectures
- 2.7 Network topologies
- 2.8 Computer architectures
- 2.9 Computer systems support software architecture
- 2.10 Components of a database system s architecture
- 2.11 Summary
- Chapter 3: Fundamental Concepts and Performance Measures
- 3.2 Time
- 3.3 Events
- 3.4 Measurements (sampling)
- 3.5 Intervals
- 3.6 Response
- 3.7 Independence
- 3.8 Randomness
- 3.9 Workloads
- 3.10 Problems encountered in model development and use
- 3.11 A case study
- 3.12 Summary
- Chapter 4: General Measurement Principles
- 4.1 Scheduling algorithms
- 4.2 Workloads
- 4.3 Summary
- Chapter 5: Probability
- 5.1 Random variables
- 5.2 Jointly distributed random variables
- 5.3 Probability distributions
- 5.4 Densities
- 5.5 Expectation
- 5.6 Some example probability distributions
- 5.7 Summary
- Chapter 6: Stochastic Processes
- 6.2 Basic definitions
- 6.3 Poisson process
- 6.4 Birth-death process
- 6.5 Markov process
- 6.6 Summary
- Chapter 7: Queuing Theory
- 7.2 Networks of queues
- 7.3 Estimating parameters and distributions
- 7.4 Computational methods for queuing network solutions
- 7.5 Summary
- Chapter 8: Simulation Analysis
- 8.1 Simulation process
- 8.2 Time control
- 8.3 Systems and modeling
- 8.4 Simulation languages
- 8.5 Applications of simulation
- 8.6 Summary
- Chapter 9: Petri Nets
- 9.2 Basic notation
- 9.3 Classical Petri nets
- 9.4 Timed Petri nets
- 9.5 Priority-based Petri nets
- 9.6 Colored Petri nets
- 9.7 Generalized Petri nets
- 9.8 Summary
- Chapter 10: Hardware Testbeds, Instrumentation, Measurement, Data Extraction, and Analysis
- 10.1 Derivation of performance evaluation parameters
- 10.2 Network performance tests
- 10.3 General methods of data extraction
- 10.4 Testbed and model workloads
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