Saturday, March 13, 2010

CS5015 – PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS SYLLABUS



CS5015 – PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS



UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS 9
Need for Performance Evaluation – Role of Performance Evaluation – Performance Evaluation
Methods – Performance Metrics and Evaluation Criteria – CPU and I/O Architectures – Distributed and Network Architectures – Secondary Storage – Topologies – Computer Architecture – Fundamental Concepts and Performance Measures.

UNIT II PROBABILITY AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES 9
Scheduling Algorithms – Workloads – Random Variables – Probability Distributions – Densities – Expectation – Stochastic Processes – Poisson Process – Birth Death Process – Markov Process.

UNIT III QUEUING THEORY 9
Queuing Systems – Networks of Queues – Estimating Parameters and Distributions – Computational Methods – Simulation Process – Time Control – Systems and Modeling.

UNIT IV PETRI NETS AND SYSTEM PERFORMANCE 9
Petri Nets – Classical Petri Nets – Timed Petri Nets – Priority–based Petri Nets – Colored Petri Nets – Generalized Petri Nets – Tool Selection – Validation of Results – Performance Metrics –
Evaluation – Multiple Server Computer System Analysis.

UNIT V ANALYSIS 9
OS Components – System Architecture – Workloads – Design – Simulation – Analysis – Database System Performance – Computer Networks Components – Simulation Modeling of LAN.

Total: 45

TEXTBOOK
1. Paul J. Fortier, Howard E. Michael, “Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and
Prediction”, Elsevier Science 2003.

REFERENCES
1. Thomas G. Robertazzi, “Computer Networks and Systems Queing theory and Performance
Evaluation”, 3rd Edition, Springer, 2000.
2. Domenico Ferrari , Giuseppe Serazzi ,Alexandro Zeijher, “Measurement & Tuning of
Computer Systems “, Prentice Hall Inc, 1983.
3. Michael F. Mories and Paul F. Roth, “Tools and techniques Computer Performance
Evaluation”, Van Nostrand, 1982.

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