The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling (Hardcover)

Partial 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.