The Art Of Computer Systems Performance Analysis

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Raj Jain is a Senior Consulting Engineer in the Distributed Systems Architecture and Performance Group at Digital Equipment Corporation. With over sixteen years of experience in the field of computer systems performance, he is currently responsible for analyzing various design alternatives for DEC's networking architecture. He received the Ph.D. degreefrom Harvard and has taught courses on performance at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Jain is a Fellow of the IEEE and is listed in Who's Who in the Computer Industry, 1989. Table of Contents Part I: An Overview of Performance Evaluation Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Selection of Techniques and Metrics MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS Types of Workloads Workload Characterization Techniques Monitors Ratio Games Part II: Probability Theory and Statistics Summarizing Measured Data Simple Linear Regression Models Other Regression Models Part III: Experimental Design and Analysis One-Factor Experiments Two-Factor Full Factorial Design without Replications Two-Factor Full Factorial Design with Replications Part IV: Simulation Analysis of Simulation Results Testing Random-Number Generators Commonly Used Distributions Part V: Queuing Models Analysis of a Single Queue Operational Laws Convolution Algorithm Appendix Solutions to Selected Exercises References Author Index Subject Index