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Performance analysis of internet based software retrieval systems using Petri Nets

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José Merseguer,

Eduardo MenaAuthors Info & Claims

MSWIM '01: Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems

Pages 47 - 56

https://doi.org/10.1145/381591.381604

Published: 21 July 2001 Publication History

Abstract

Nowadays, there exist web sites that allow users to retrieve and install software in an easy way. The performance of these sites may be poor if they are used in wireless networks; the reason is the inadequate use of the net resources they need. If this kind of systems are designed using mobile agent technology the previous problem might be avoided. In this paper, we present a comparison between the performance of a software retrieval system especially designed to be used in wireless networks (e.g., mobile computers) and the performance of a software retrieval system similar to the well-known Tucows.com or Download.com web sites.

In order to compare performance, we make use of a software performance process enriched with formal techniques. The process has as important features that it uses UML as a design notation and it uses stochastic Petri nets as formal model. Petri nets provide a formal semantics for the system and a performance model.

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MSWIM '01: Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems

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ISBN:1581133782

DOI:10.1145/381591

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Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Lorenzo Donatiello
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