Computer System Performance Modeling In Perspective: A Tribute To The Work Of Prof Kenneth C Sevcik
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Computer System Performance Modeling In Perspective: A Tribute To The Work Of Prof Kenneth C Sevcik

A Tribute to the Work of Prof Kenneth C Sevcik

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Computer System Performance Modeling In Perspective: A Tribute To The Work Of Prof Kenneth C Sevcik

A Tribute to the Work of Prof Kenneth C Sevcik

About this book

Computer system performance evaluation is a key discipline for the understanding of the behavior and limitations of large scale computer systems and networks. This volume provides an overview of the milestones and major developments of the field.The contributions to the book include many of the principal leaders from industry and academia with a truly international coverage, including several IEEE and ACM Fellows, two Fellows of the US National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the European Academy, and a former President of the Association of Computing Machinery.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1 Ken Sevcik as an Advisor and Mentor
  4. Chapter 2 Shadow Servers and Priority Scheduling
  5. Chapter 3 On the Chronology of Dynamic Allocation Index Policies: The Pioneering Work of K. C. Sevcik
  6. Chapter 4 Operational Analysis
  7. Chapter 5 Function Approximation by Random Neural Networks with a Bounded Number of Layers
  8. Chapter 6 The Achilles' Heel of Computer Performance Modeling and the Model Building Shield
  9. Chapter 7 Wireless Network Simulation: Towards a Systematic Approach
  10. Chapter 8 Location- and Power-Aware Protocols for Wireless Networks with Asymmetric Links
  11. Chapter 9 Multi-Threaded Servers with High Service Time Variation for Layered Queueing Networks
  12. Chapter 10 Quantiles of Sojourn Times
  13. Chapter 11 Asymptotic Solutions for Two Non-Stationary Problems in Internet Reliability
  14. Chapter 12 Burst Loss Probabilities in an OBS Network with Dynamic Simultaneous Link Possession
  15. Chapter 13 Stochastic Analysis of Resource Allocation in Parallel Processing Systems
  16. Chapter 14 Periodic Task Cluster Scheduling in Distributed Systems