About the author 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. degree from 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.
Summary
Based on the author's experience in industry, focuses on simple, straightforward techniques to solve everyday
problems in systems design and analysis. Stressing both systems- and analysis-oriented approaches, it provides
basic modeling, simulation and analysis background to systems analysts so that they will understand performance
terminology, properly design performance experiments, use simple queueing and simulation models, and correctly
interpret results. Covering a variety of systems, including networks, databases and distributed systems among others,
emphasizes and comprehensively integrates all aspects of performance analysis. Also highlights experimental design
techniques specifically intended to reduce analysis costs.
Table of Contents
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
PROBABILITY THEORY AND STATISTICS
Summarizing Measured Data
Simple Linear Regression Models
Other Regression Models
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
One-Factor Experiments
Two-Factor Full Factorial Design without Replications
Two-Factor Full Factorial Design with Replications
SIMULATION
Analysis of Simulation Results
Testing Random-Number Generators
Commonly Used Distributions
QUEUEING MODELS
Analysis of a Single Queue
Operational Laws
Convolution Algorithm
Appendix
Solutions to Selected Exercises
References
Author Index
Subject Index
