Performability Modeling Based on Real Data: A Case Study

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 478-484

  Trivedi, K S ^b   Iyer, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error; measurements; performability; semi Markov; workload

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - MULTIPROCESSING; RELIABILITY - ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS - IDENTIFICATION;

MEASUREMENT-BASED PERFORMABILITY MODEL; RESOURCE-USAGE DATA COLLECTION; SEMI-MARKOV PROCESS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0023999829     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.2195     Document Type: Article

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