Organization

Course Overview

The objective of this lecture is to introduce performance modeling of complex distributed systems.

• Server dimensioning of planned systems
• Quality of service guarantees in distributed systems
• Resource management in distributed systems

The focus will be on different analytical methods for performance modeling, namely stochastic network calculus (SNC) with

• Moment generating functions (MGFs)
• Tail bounds

Literature

• Cheng-Shang Chang, Performance Guarantees in Communication Networks. Springer, 2000.
• Yuming Jiang, Stochastic Network Calculus. Springer, 2008.