The Performance Estimation by Queuing Network Models for a Web-based Medical Information System

  • Authors:
  • Ying-Wen Bai;Chien-Yung Cheng

  • Affiliations:
  • Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan;Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • CBMS '04 Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Usually, too many patients or users accessing a medical server can cause congestionand delay. To plan a system's capacity, we propose a queuing network model to estimatethe performance index of a medical information system. First, we measure a set of thesystem response times with respect to the system specification. Second, by using themaximum likelihood function, we find the estimate of an equivalent service rate and thebuffer size of a queue model from the simplified system. Third, with these queuing modelparameters, we can simulate the performance of the medical information system. Then,before the implementation of the medical information system, we can estimate theperformance of this system by means of a typical queuing simulation tool, such as QNAT.