Performance Analysis Tools
Gunter Bolch, Stefan Greiner, Hermann de Meer, Kishor S. Trivedi · 1998
This chapter is devoted to the introduction of a queueing network tool, a stochastic Petri net tool, a tool based on Markov chains and a toolkit with many model types, and the facility for hierarchical modeling is also introduced. Each tool is described in some detail together with a simple example. Throughout the book we have provided many example applications of different algorithms introduced in the book. In this chapter we introduce four representative performance modeling and analysis tools: PEPSY, SPNP, MOSES, and SHARPE. Tools differ not only in their solution algorithms (DES, exact and approximate solution algorithms for queueing networks, generation and transient and steady-state solution of CTMCs) but also in their input/output facilities. There are tools that have a graphical user interface (GUI) and/or a special input language (batch mode or interactive) or both. Some tools are based on special model types such as queueing networks, SPNs, CTMC models, or precedence graphs (and others) or a combination of these model types.