Preface -- Preliminaries -- Concepts and Little's Law -- Single Queues -- Open Systems -- Markov Chains -- Closed Systems -- Bottlenecks and Flow Equivalence -- Deterministic Approximations -- Transient Analysis -- Experimental Validation and Analysis -- Analysis with an Analytical Model -- Bibliography -- Author's Biography.

This book is an introduction to analytical performance modeling for computer systems, i.e., writing equations to describe their performance behavior. It is accessible to readers who have taken college-level courses in calculus and probability, networking and operating systems. This is not a training manual for becoming an expert performance analyst. Rather, the objective is to help the reader construct simple models for analyzing and understanding the systems that they are interested in.