EEC 685/785 Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems, Fall 2002

 

Date

Content

Reading by next class

Homework by next week

Textbook

Paper

Aug 27

1. Introduction

 

Ch.2-3

 

Aug 29

NO CLASS (University of Michigan)

 

 

 

Sep 3

2-3 Common mistakes & Metrics

 

 

 

Sep 5

4-5 Workloads

Lmbench

Ch. 6

HW#1

Sep 10

6 Workload characterization

SPEC

Ch. 7

 

Sep 12

7-8 Monitors & Tornado tools

 

 

 

Sep 17

9-10 Capacity, Data Presentation

MANET Capacity (3)

Ch. 11-13

 

Sep 19

11-13 Ratio games

 

Ch. 14-15

 

Sep 24

14-15 Regression models

Leland paper

 

 

Sep 26

Quiz

SPEC (again) & MPEG (2)

Ch. 16-18

 

Oct 1

16-23 Experimental design

MANET paper

Ch. 24-25

HW#2

Oct 3

24-25 Simulation & Analysis of simulation results

 

Ch. 26-27

 

Oct 8

26-27 Random number generation & Their testing

 

Ch. 28

 

Oct 10

28 Random variate generation

 

 

 

Oct 15

NO CLASS (Study day)

 

 

 

Oct 17

Midterm Exam

 

 

 

Oct 22

Review of Midterm Exam,

DEVSJAVA modeling/simulation software package

 

 

 

Oct 24

No Class

Random number generator

Ch. 29

 

Oct 29

29 Commonly used distributions

 

 

 

Oct 31

 

Downey, Zipf, Self-similar & Long-lasting simulation

Ch. 30

HW#3

Nov 5

30 Introduction to Queueing Theory

 

Ch. 31

 

Nov 7

31 Analysis of a Single Queue

 

 

 

Nov 12

31 Analysis of a Single Queue

Video server

 

 

Nov 14

Quiz

 

Ch. 32

 

Nov 19

32 Queueing Networks

 

Ch. 33

 

Nov 21

33 Operational Laws

 

 

HW#4

Nov 26

33 Operational Laws

MAC analysis

Ch. 34

 

Nov 28

NO CLASS (Thanksgiving Day)

 

 

 

Dec 3

34 Mean Value Analysis

 

 

 

Dec 5

Final Exam

 

 

 

Dec 12

NO CLASS (PRDC Conference)