Front Cover -- Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 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 -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Computer hardware architecture -- 2.3 CPU architectures -- 2.4 I/O 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 -- 3.1 Introduction -- 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 -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Basic definitions -- 6.3 Poisson process -- 6.4 Birth-death process -- 6.5 Markov process -- 6.6 Summary -- Chapter 7. Queuing Theory -- 7.1 Queuing systems -- 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 -- 9.1 Introduction -- 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 -- 10.5 Experimental design -- 10.6 Data presentation -- 10.7 Summary -- Chapter 11. System Performance Evaluation Tool Selection and Use -- 11.1 Tool selection -- 11.2 Validation of results -- 11.3 Conducting experiments -- 11.4 Performance metrics -- 11.5 Evaluation -- 11.6 Summary -- Chapter 12. Analysis of Computer Architectures -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Case I: Central server computer system -- 12.3 Case II: Multiple server computer system -- 12.4 Case III: Petri net example -- 12.5 Summary -- Chapter 13. Analysis of Operating System Components -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 System architectures -- 13.3 Workloads -- 13.4 Experimental design and simulation -- 13.5 Experimental analysis and conclusion -- 13.6 Summary -- Chapter 14. Database Systems Performance Analysis -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The testbed systems -- 14.3 The database systems -- 14.4 Testbed performance analysis testing -- 14.5 The results -- 14.6 Summary -- Chapter 15. Analysis of Computer Networks Components -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Analytical modeling examples.

15.3 Simulation modeling of local area networks -- 15.4 Summary -- References -- Index.