Should I add a processor? (performance evaluation)
Kishor Shridharbhai Trivedi, Archana S. Sathaye, Oliver C. Ibe, Richard C. Howe · 2002
A Markov model is developed demonstrating that when availability is the only measure of system effectiveness of interest, even a small reconfiguration delay leads to a violation of the monotonic increase in availability with the number of processors. A measure of system effectiveness, loss probability of a task, is proposed. It captures aspects of performance and availability.>