Book review: Multiple Access Protocols: Performance and Analysis by Raphael Rom and Moshe Sidi (Springer-Verlag, 1990)
David Finkel · ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review · 1991
The author's central thesis is that responsiveness, or performance, is crucial to the success of software systems. Thus performance considerations must be a part of all stages of software development, starting from the earliest stages of design. The approach uses a combination of straightforward data collection and analysis, and mathematically sophisticated techniques. The mathematical treatment is entirely self-contained, and no extensive mathematical background is assumed.