Probability, statistics, and queueing theory with computer science applications
Probability, statistics, and queueing theory with computer science applications
Recent progress in unconstrained nonlinear optimization without derivatives
Mathematical Programming: Series A and B - Special issue: papers from ismp97, the 16th international symposium on mathematical programming, Lausanne EPFL
Measurements and analysis of end-to-end Internet dynamics
Measurements and analysis of end-to-end Internet dynamics
A note on service interruptions
SIGMETRICS '85 Proceedings of the 1985 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
An Implementation of Shor's r-Algorithm
Computational Optimization and Applications
Product-Form Approximations for an Extended Class of General Closed Queueing Networks
Performance '90 Proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance Modelling, Measurement and Evaluation
Efficient and Accurate Ethernet Simulation
LCN '99 Proceedings of the 24th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
ICCC '02 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Computer communication
A framework for interpreting measurement over Internet
MoMeTools '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Models, methods and tools for reproducible network research
Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Theory, Volume 1, Queueing Systems
Theory, Volume 1, Queueing Systems
Parameter inference of queueing models for IT systems using end-to-end measurements
Performance Evaluation
Algorithm 856: APPSPACK 4.0: asynchronous parallel pattern search for derivative-free optimization
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
A unified load generator based on formal load specification and load transformation
valuetools '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Performance evaluation methodolgies and tools
Internet Measurement: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications
Internet Measurement: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications
Computer Performance Evaluation Methodology
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A conditional probability approach to M/G/1-like queues
Performance Evaluation
A DFO technique to calibrate queueing models
Computers and Operations Research
Towards an automatic modeling tool for observed system behavior
EPEW'07 Proceedings of the 4th European performance engineering conference on Formal methods and stochastic models for performance evaluation
Performance evaluation of a broadband wireless access system subjected to heavy load
Computer Communications
Analytical modeling of primary and secondary load as induced by video applications using UDP/IP
Computer Communications
Performance models of storage contention in cloud environments
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
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Current computer systems and communication networks tend to be highly complex, and they typically hide their internal structure from their users. Thus, for selected aspects of capacity planning, overload control and related applications, it is useful to have a method allowing one to find good and relatively simple approximations for the observed system behavior with little knowledge of the system internal structure or operation. This paper investigates one such approach where we attempt to represent the observed behavior by adequately selecting the parameters of a set of queueing models. We identify a limited number of queueing models that we use as Building Blocks in our procedure. The selected Building Blocks allow us to accurately approximate the measured behavior of a range of different systems. The models used include a small selection of elementary queueing models, as well as original models of system congestion and saturation. We propose an approach for selecting suitable Building Blocks, as well as for their calibration. In particular, we automate the calibration step and make it systematic through the use of a Derivative-Free Optimization technique. We are able to successfully validate our methodology for a number of case studies. Finally, we discuss the potential and the limitations of the proposed approach.