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Tues. & Thurs. 11:00a-12:15p
1143 Mechanical Engineering
Texts and Readings
Course Text:
- [LZGS] E. D. Lazowska, J. Zahorjan, G. S. Graham, K. C. Sevcik,
Quantitative System Performance, Prentice Hall, 1984.
This text is available online
here.
We will cover chapters 1-6 in the above text.
Note that the copyright date is 1984.
Hence the example systems modeled in the text are hugely out of date(!).
On the other hand, the modeling techniques covered in the text are timeless.
We will illustrate this key point by covering applications of the techniques
to current system performance analysis and design in class.
Other Course Texts:
- [AA] A. O. Allen, Probability, Statistics, and Queueing Theory with
Computer Science Applications, Second Edition, Academic Press, 1990.
- [SR] Sheldon Ross, A First Course in Probability, Fifth Edition,
Prentice Hall, 2002.
- [LK] L. Kleinrock,
Queueing Systems Volume I: Theory,
Wiley Interscience, 1975.
Copies of these other course texts will be on reserve at the Wendt Library
and/or will be available to check out from the CS 547 TA.
Relevant sections to read will be provided in the Schedule of Topics.
Tutorials
- Matlab Tutorial
You can use Matlab or Excel or any other software of your choice to plot your
results in this course. Note that there are many Matlab tutorials available
on the web.
- Queueing
Theory Tutor
This on-line tutorial contains a graphical simulation of the M/M/1 queue.
In this queue, customers arrive to a server at random points in time
and service times are moderately bursty.
The simulation illustrates the burstiness of random arrivals,
the "busy period" behavior, and the time it takes
for the queue to empty after a backlog builds up.
Additional Resources
Application Papers
Below are selected papers in the literature that describe performance
models which may be covered in the course.
Applications of probability and random variables:
J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, D. Towsley, J. Kurose,
"Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation",
Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '98, August 1998.
C. Samios and M. K. Vernon,
"Modeling the Throughput of TCP Vegas",
Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2003, San Diego, June 2003.
Customized queueing models:
Tan, H., D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and H. Guo,
"Quality of Service Evaluations of Multicast Streaming Protocols",
Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2002,
Marina del Rey, CA, June 2002.
Bier, G.E., and M. K. Vernon,
"Measurement and Prediction of Contention in Multiprocessor Operating
Systems with Scientific Application Workloads",
Proc. 1988 Int'l. Conf. on Supercomputing,
St. Malo, France, July 4-8, 1988, pp. 9-15.
R. Berry and K. M. Chandy,
"Performance Models of Token Ring Local Area Networks",
Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS '83, Minneapolis, August 1983, p. 266-274.
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