We present a technique for defining and extracting passage-time densities from high-level stochastic process algebra models. Our high-level formalism is PEPA, a popular Markovian...
Jeremy T. Bradley, Nicholas J. Dingle, Stephen T. ...
A flash crowd is a surge in traffic to a particular Web site that causes the site to be virtually unreachable. We present a theoretical model of flash crowd events and evaluate...
Ismail Ari, Bo Hong, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Bra...
System-level design presents special simulation modeling challenges. System-level models address the architectural and functional performance of complex systems. Systems are decom...
Gunar Schorcht, Ian A. Troxel, Keyvan Farhangian, ...
All enterprise storage systems depend on disk arrays to satisfy their capacity, reliability, and availability requirements. Performance models of disk arrays are useful in underst...
Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiao...
Scalability is the primary challenge to studying large complex network systems with network emulation. This paper studies topology partitioning, assigning disjoint pieces of the n...
Ken Yocum, Ethan Eade, Julius Degesys, David Becke...