Description

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.

Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Basic Tools of Probabilistic Modelling (415 KB)
Chapter 3: Queueing Network Models (334 KB)
Chapter 5: Markov-Modulated Queues (375 KB)