Performance Modeling of Communication Networks and Computer Architecture (International Computer Science Series) - Hardcover

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About Peter HarrisonPeter Harrison is Reader in Computer Science at Imperial Collegein London and co-author of a highly -acclaimed book on FunctionalProgramming. About Naresh PatelNaresh Patel was formerly a Research Assistant inComputer Science at Imperial Collegein London and is now a Performace Modelling Engineerwith the System Performance Modelling Group at Tandem ComputersInc. in Cupertino, California.

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With the advent of communication networks of staggering complexity, and new generations of parallel computers, sophisticated models and techniques have been developed to evaluate their performance. This book presents the latest techniques for performance modelling to guide designers in their quest for efficiency.

• An in-depth study queueing network models and algorithms for computing performance measures.
• Unique presentation of recent results in the analysis of blocking problems, maximum entropy methods, time delay distributions and switching networks.
• A self-contained presentation of relevant stochastic process theory.
• A wealth of exercises and sample solutions

With its balance between theoretical issues and practical applications, the book will be invaluable for network engineers and system designers, as well as for students in computer science and engineering taking courses in performance modelling or queueing network analysis.