Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems - Couverture souple

Le Boudec, Jean-Yves

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1439849927 ISBN 13 : 9781439849927

Editeur : Taylor & Francis Inc, 2021

Synopsis

Performance evaluation is a critical stage of software- and hardware-system development that every computer engineer and scientist should master. Although complex - requiring skills in mathematics, measurement techniques and simulation - performance evaluation is primarily an art; indeed, the most difficult stage in a performance analysis is defining the approach: once you know what to do, it is less difficult to define a plan of attack with your familiar software tools. We present a set of topics, which we believe should be part of every engineer's intellectual toolkit. This includes the statistical exploitation of numerical results in an efficient and ethical way, for example: how to summarize variability or fairness; what transient removal in a simulation is; and how to make predictions from a time series. We also present well-known performance patterns, which helps to quickly bring the engineer to the main issues. For queuing theory, we focus on a subset of very useful results, such as operational laws. A highlight of the book is the development of Palm calculus, also called “the importance of the viewpoint, ” which is central to queuing theory. Indeed, this topic has so many applications to simulation and to system analysis in general that it is a very good time investment. This book began as a set of lecture notes for a course given at EPFL.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jean-Yves Le Boudec is professor at EPFL and fellow of the IEEE. He graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud, Paris, and received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of Rennes, France. Before joining the EPFL in 1994, he had worked at Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada; and at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory where he was manager of the Customer Premises Network Department. His interests are in the performance and architecture of communication systems. He is recipient of numerous awards, including the 2008 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize in the field of Communications Networking.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439849927
• ISBN 13: 9781439849927
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
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