Evaluating Performance from Formal Specification

  • Authors:
  • J. Martins;J.-P. Hubaux

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • MASCOTS '96 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new methodology for integrating peformance evaluation and formal specification. This methodology intends to reuse the formal specification effort to create a pelformance modeling. Our idea is to start abstracting the relevant features of the real system in the formal specification. Then, we enhance the specification with information for performance modeling (quality of service, workload, processing design and processing constraints}. At that point, we map the enhancedformal representation in a peformance modeling that maintains the formal properties. Next, we implement this modeling in a pelformance evaluation environment. Finally, we run simulations of the achieved executable varying evaluation conditions. Our methodology is applied to the Specification and Description Language (SDL). Ultimately, we explain the methodology through an example: the Transport Control Protocol (TCP).