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Performance Evaluation
Volume 60, Issues 1-4, May 2005, Pages 237-254
Performance Modeling and Evaluation of High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Systems
 
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Iterative convergence of passage-time densities in semi-Markov performance models

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Jeremy T. Bradleya, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Helen J. Wilsonb, 1, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aDepartment of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK

bDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK


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Abstract

Passage-time densities are important for the detailed performance analysis of distributed computer and communicating systems. We provide a proof and demonstration of a practical iterative algorithm for extracting complete passage-time densities from expressive semi-Markov systems. We end by showing its application to a distributed web-server cluster model of 15.9 million states.

Keywords: Passage-time density; Iterative algorithm; Analytic performance modelling; Semi-Markov process; Stochastic Petri nets

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Background theory
2.1. Semi-Markov processes
2.2. First passage-times
2.3. Iterative algorithm for evaluating passage-times
3. Proof of convergence and correctness
3.1. Technical summary
3.2. Preliminary observations
3.3. Conjectures
4. Distribution representation and Laplace inversion
4.1. Summary of Euler inversion
4.2. Summary of Laguerre inversion
5. Convergence examples
5.1. Markovian example
5.2. Semi-Markov example
6. System-size passage-time analysis
6.1. A distributed web-server cluster model
6.2. Convergence of the iterative passage-time algorithm
6.3. Passage-time densities
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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1 Present address: Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

Performance Evaluation
Volume 60, Issues 1-4, May 2005, Pages 237-254
Performance Modeling and Evaluation of High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Systems
 
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