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Communications software performance prediction

G. Waters, P. Linington, D. Akehurst, and A. Symes

In Demetres Kouvatsos, editor, 13th UK Workshop on Performance Engineering of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, pages 182-196, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, July 1997. BCS Performance Engineering Specialist Group.

Abstract

Software development can be costly and it is important that confidence in a software system be established as early as possible in the design process. Where the software supports communication services, it is essential that the resultant system will operate within certain performance constraints (e.g. response time).

This paper gives an overview of work in progress on a collaborative project sponsored by BT which aims to offer performance predictions at an early stage in the software design process. The Permabase architecture enables object-oriented software designs to be combined with descriptions of the network configuration and workload as a basis for the input to a simulation model which can predict aspects of the performance of the system. The prototype implementation of the architecture uses a combination of linked design and simulation tools.

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Bibtex Record

@conference{437,
author = {Waters, G. and Linington, P. and Akehurst, D. and Symes, A.},
title = {{C}ommunications software performance prediction},
month = {July},
year = {1997},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1997/437},
    ISBN = {0 9524027 2 6},
    address = {Ilkley, West Yorkshire},
    booktitle = {13th UK Workshop on Performance Engineering of Computer and Telecommunication Systems},
    editor = {Kouvatsos, Demetres},
    publisher = {BCS Performance Engineering Specialist Group},
    refereed = {Yes},
}

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