This book is the proceedings of the Workshop on the Performance Engineering of Computer and Telecommunications Systems. The workshop Was held at Liverpool John Moores University, England on the 5th and 6th September 1995. The workshop follows a series organised by the British Computer Society (BCS) Special Interest Group on Performance Engineering. The workshop addressed most techniques and experieI1ces in the Engineering of Computer and Telecommunications Systems that provide a guaranteed quality of service. Techniques such as measurements, simulation, and analytical models and their applications to ATM networks, Multimedia Systems, Distributed Systems, Access and Wide Area Networks were presented. In addition a number of papers dealt with advances in the development of analytical models, simulation architectures and the application of formal methods, stich as Process Algebra, to the specification and building of performance biased computer systems. The book is suitable for systems designers, engineers, researchers and postgraduate students interested in the design and implementation of Computer Systems, Networks and Telecommunications. Many people assisted in the arrangements and success of this workshop. I would like to thank them all and in particular the reviewers. I would also like to particularly thank our industrial sponsors GPT Public Networks Group, Liverpool and BICC Cables, Chester, England for their generous financial and material support.
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IX, 381 p. 19 illus.
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ISBN-13
978-1-4471-1007-1 (9781447110071)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4471-1007-1
Schweitzer Klassifikation
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 DriverWorkload 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.
