Performance engineering of computer and telecommunications systems
[Book]
Madjid Merabti, Michael Carew, and Frank Ball (eds.).
Springer
1996
ix, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Invited Paper.- Cost Effective Methodologies for Queueing Models of ATM Switched Networks.- ATM Networks.- Evaluation of Source Policing Functions with Strict Enforcement Policies in ATM Networks.- Performance Analysis of a Fault-tolerant ATM Switch in Single-fault Conditions.- Developing an Object Oriented Simulation Framework for ATM Network Performance Studies.- Multimedia Systems.- Workload Modelling for Cost-Effective Resource Management in ATM Networks.- Supporting Quality of Service Guarantees Across Heterogeneous LANs.- Analytical Models.- MRE Analysis of Open Exponential Queueing Networks with Server Vacations and Blocking.- IPP Overflow Traffic on a Two-stage Queueing Network.- "General" Marketing-Dependent Rates and Probabilities in GSPNs.- Negative Customers Model Queues with Breakdowns.- MEM for Closed Exponential Queueing Networks with RS-Blocking and Multiple Job Classes.- Formal Methods for Performance.- A Stochastic Process Algebra Based Modelling Tool.- Specification of Stochastic Properties in Real-Time Systems.- Detecting Reversibility Structures in Markovian Process Algebras.- Access Networks.- Wavelength Assignment Between the Central Nodes of the COST 239 European Optical Network.- Algorithms for Wavelength Assignment in All-Optical Networks.- Wave Propagation in Biaxial Planar Waveguides Using Equivalent Circuit in Laplace Space.- Distributed Systems.- An Architecture for the Measurement and Modelling of Service Provision in Distributed Systems.- A Two-Tier Load Balancing Scheme for Distributed Systems.- Adaptive Distributed Simulation for Computationally Intensive Modelling.- Optimising Simple Statistical Calculations Using Distributed Memory Computers.- Simulation.- Object Oriented Simulation Models for Performance Modelling.- Device Driver Workload Modelling Through an Abstract Machine.- Wide Area Networks.- Reduction of Channel Idle Time in a Trunked Mobile Radio Network.- A Comparative Study of k-Shortest Path Algorithms.- Author Index.