Combined performance and availability analysis of a switched network application

Author

Hunter, Steve ; Philip, Teebu ; Trivedi, Kishor

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

8-12 Jun 1997

Firstpage

241

Abstract

As switched networks providing services to end users become more commonplace, the integral components of these networks must have an increasing level of dependability. One area of interest is determining the optimal number of network servers required for a switched network application by taking into consideration the characteristics of the network traffic and failure rate of the servers. A stochastic reward net model is developed for this purpose. Such models allow performance and availability measures to be combined

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; computer network reliability; local area networks; network servers; performance evaluation; switching networks; telecommunication traffic; availability analysis; dependability; failure rate; integral components; network servers optimal number; network traffic; performance; stochastic reward net model; switched network application; Application software; Asynchronous transfer mode; Availability; Communication switching; LAN emulation; Local area networks; Network servers; Performance analysis; Power system modeling; Stochastic processes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1997. ICC '97 Montreal, Towards the Knowledge Millennium. 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3925-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1997.605215

Filename

605215