System Design and Performance Analysis Concepts

8/29/99


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Table of Contents

System Design and Performance Analysis Concepts

PPT Slide

Protocols

Layering

Layering

ISO/OSI Reference Model

OSI/ISO Lingo: Interfaces and Services

OSI/ISO Lingo: Protocol Data Unit (PDU)

OSI/ISO Lingo: Service Data Unit (SDU)

Implementing layering: Encapsulation

Application-layer framing

System Design Ideas

Circuit Switching

Packet-switching

Circuit, Virtual-ckt, Connection-Oriented, Connectionless

Multiplexing

Statistical Multiplexing

Spatial and Temporal Multiplexing

Virtualization

Pipelining and Parallelism

Pipelining example

Batching

Randomization

Locality and Hierarchy

Miscellaneous ideas

What is performance ?

Metrics and Parameters

More on Metrics/Parameters

Workloads, Benchmarks

Effect on Design: Amdahl’s law

Summary

Author: Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

Email: shivkuma@ecse.rpi.edu

Home Page: http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma