Quantitative Evaluation of Computing and Communication Systems

Evaluation of a CPU scheduling mechanism for synchronized multimedia streams.- An application of SMART2: A tool for performance evaluation of relational database programs.- Measuring Fault Tolerance with the FTAPE fault injection tool.- Queueing analysis of discrete-time buffer systems with compound arrival process and variable service capacity.- The method of moments for higher moments and the usefulness of formula manipulation systems.- Integration of performance evaluations in the design process of CPUs and computer systems.- Information requirements for software performance engineering.- Integrating behavioural and simulation modelling.- Assessment of 3rd generation mobile systems by simulation.- How good is stationary analysis for the transient phenomena of connection admission in ATM?.- On the exact and approximate analysis of hierarchical discrete time queueing networks.- Steady state analysis of Markov Regenerative SPN with age memory policy.- A new iterative method for solving Large-Scale Markov chains.- A new iterative numerical solution algorithm for Markovian queueing networks.- Transient analysis of deterministic and stochastic Petri nets with TimeNET.- QPN-Tool for the specification and analysis of hierarchically combined Queueing Petri nets.- Approximate analysis of networks of PH¦PH|1¦K queues: Theory & tool support.- Speedy: An integrated performance extrapolation tool for pC++ Programs.- HASSE: a tool for analyzing causal relationships in parallel and distributed systems.- PerPreT — A performance prediction tool for massively parallel systems.- Compile-time performance prediction of parallel systems.- Workload models for multiwindow distributed environments.- Building a hierarchical CAN-simulator using an object-oriented environment.- Performance-oriented development of irregular, unstructured and unbalanced parallel applications in the N-MAP environment.- Performance engineering of distributed software process architectures.- Performance evaluation of connectionless multicast protocols for cooperative multimedia applications.- Modeling relaxed memory consistency protocols.- Measurement, modelling and emulation of internet round-trip delays.