Quantitative System Performance

Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models

Edward D. Lazowska, John Zahorjan,
G. Scott Graham, Kenneth C. Sevcik


This text was published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., in 1984. It remains the definitive work on analytic modelling of computer systems. The publisher has returned the copyright to the authors, who make the material available here for viewing or downloading, in Adobe Acrobat PDF format (free Acrobat reader available here).

START HERE -- The easiest way to access the book online is through the hyperlinked Table of Contents available through this link.

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Russian translation of this page courtesy of StarMoz.

Belarussian translation of this page courtesy of Patricia Motosan.

Slovak translation of this page courtesy of Paula Nuculescu


  • Contents

  • Preface

  • I. Preliminaries
  • II. General Analytic Techniques
  • III. Representing Specific Subsystems
  • IV. Parameterization
  • V. Perspective
  • VI. Appendices
  • Index


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