CS 450 Modeling and Simulation Dr. X Topics System Analysis
Arrival process The Queue The Server The simulation Single Server
Queue Arrival Server System Analysis Needs Analysis why? Queue size
Idleness Wait time Original System what? Web server Buffers
Requests System Analysis Observable elements Queue size Request
arrival Request departure Data Interarrivals Service time
(interdepartures) Number of packets in buffer Events? Input data
Arrival times Other? Output data Conceptual Model of SSQ Arrival
Process Mean Standard Deviation Distribution!! How do we figure out
a and b? Histograms Normal distribution Uniform Distribution
Converting uniform to exponential How the SSQ works Event
Scheduling References The Guide to Computer Simulations and Games,
By Katrin Becker and J.R.Parker, Wiley (Chapter 6) Computer
Simulation Techniques: The Definitive Introduction, by Harry
Perros,(Chapter 2)CS 45025
