Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems: Revised Tutorial Lectures

Novella Bartolini, Emiliano Casalicchio (auth.), Maria Carla Calzarossa, Erol Gelenbe (eds.)3540219455

This book presents revised versions of tutorial lectures given at the IEEE/CS Symposium on modeling, analysis, and simulation of computer and telecommunication systems held in Orlando, FL, USA in October 2003.

The lectures are grouped into three parts on performance and QoS of modern wired and wireless networks, current advances in performance modeling and simulation, and other specific applications of these methodologies.

This tutorial book is targeted to both practitioners and researchers. The practitioner will benefit from numerous pointers to performance and QoS issues; the pedagogical style and plenty of references will be of great use in solving practical problems. The researcher and advanced student are offered a representative set of topics not only for their research value but also for their novelty and use in identifying areas of active research.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
A Walk through Content Delivery Networks….Pages 1-25
Computer Virus Propagation Models….Pages 26-50
Performance Evaluation of Mail Systems….Pages 51-67
CPN and QoS Driven Smart Routing in Wired and Wireless Networks….Pages 68-87
Modeling and Simulation of Mesh Networks with Path Protection and Restoration….Pages 88-117
Wireless Internet: Protocols and Performance….Pages 118-142
Performance Models for 2.5/3G Mobile Systems and Networks….Pages 143-167
IP-Oriented QoS in the Next Generation Networks: Application to Wireless Networks….Pages 168-186
Peer-to-Peer Computing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks….Pages 187-208
Multipath Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Issues and Challenges….Pages 209-234
Algorithmic Design for Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks….Pages 235-253
Performance Management in Dynamic Computing Environments….Pages 254-264
Software Performance Modeling Using UML and Petri Nets….Pages 265-289
Enabling Simulation with Augmented Reality….Pages 290-310
PEPA Nets….Pages 311-335
Scheduling in Distributed Systems….Pages 336-356
Data Allocation and Scheduling in Disks and Disk Arrays….Pages 357-384
Back Matter….Pages –