Tools for performance evaluation of computer systems: historical evolution and perspectives

Authors:
Giuliano Casale;Marco Gribaudo;Giuseppe Serazzi
Affiliations:
Imperial College London, London, UK;Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy;Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Venue:
PERFORM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IFIP WG 6.3/7.3 international conference on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems: milestones and future challenges
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The development of software tools for performance evaluation and modeling has been an active research area since the early years of computer science. In this paper, we offer a short overview of historical evolution of the field with an emphasis on popular performance modeling techniques such as queuing networks and Petri nets. A review of recent works that provide new perspectives to software tools for performance modeling is presented, followed by a number of ideas on future research directions for the area.