Analytical Performance Modeling for Computer Systems, Third Edition

Y.C. Tay received his BSc from the University of Singapore and PhD from Harvard University. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. He has spent sabbaticals at Princeton, MIT, Cambridge, UCLA, Microsoft, Intel and VMware. He has served on program committees for SIGMET-RICS, SIGMOD, PERFORMANCE, VLDB, ICDE, MASCOTS, IWQoS and ICS. His main research interest is performance modeling (database transactions, wireless protocols, trafficequilibrium, cache misses). Other interests include database systems and distributed protocols. He has won several teaching awards.

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Preliminaries.- Concepts and Little's Law.- Single Queues.- Open Systems.- Markov Chains.- Closed Systems.- Bottlenecks and Flow Equivalence.- Deterministic Approximations.- Transient Analysis.- Experimental Validation and Analysis.- Analysis with an Analytical Model.- Exercises.- Bibliography.- Author's Biography.- Index .