This book will discuss the problem of Capacity Planning and Performance Analysis in Web Server, Inranet and Client/Server environments. It will identify problem areas where capacity planning and performance analysis are critical concerns: arrival rate, through-put, response time, service demand, workload, delay, bottleneck, and saturation. It will discuss protocol (HTTP & TCP/IP) and workloads (access to HTML documents, graphics, etc.). It will show how to access existing capacities and how to plan for future capacities. It will discuss benchmarking metrics, global systems problems, workload forecasting, etc.

About the Author

DANIEL A. MENASCE is a Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University, VA. He has published extensively in the area of performance modeling, client/system performance evaluation, and software performance engineering. Menasce was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in recognition of outstanding contributions to information technology. VIRGILIO A. F. ALMEIDA is a Professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He has published extensively in the area of distributed systems and World Wide Web performance. Almeida held visiting faculty and research positions at Boston University and XEROX PARC.

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