by Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College, UK) & Isi Mitrani (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

Table of Contents (69k)
Preface (53k)
Chapter 1: Basic Tools of Probabilistic Modelling (415k)

About Erol Gelenbe

About Isi Mitrani

Analysis and Synthesis of Computer Systems presents a broad overview of methods that are used to evaluate the performance of computer systems and networks, manufacturing systems, and interconnected services systems. Aside from a highly readable style that rigorously addresses all subjects, this second edition includes new chapters on numerical methods for queueing models and on G-networks, the latter being a new area of queuing theory that one of the authors has pioneered.

This book will have a broad appeal to students, practitioners and researchers in several different areas, including practicing computer engineers as well as computer science and engineering students.

• Basic Tools of Probabilistic Modelling
• The Queue with Server of Walking Type and Its Applications to Computer System Modelling
• Queueing Network Models
• Queueing Networks with Multiple Classes of Positive and Negative Customers and Product Form Solution
• Markov-Modulated Queues
• Diffusion Approximation Methods for General Queueing Networks
• Approximate Decomposition and Iterative Techniques for Closed Model Solution
• Synthesis Problems in Single-Resource Systems: Characterisation and Control of Achievable Performance
• Control of Performance in Mutliple-Resource Systems
• A Queue with Server of Walking Type