Performance Analysis of a Software Design Using the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time

Xu, Jie; Woodside, C. Murray; Petriu, Dorina C.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45232-4_18

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“…Since then, the usage of UML as a modelling language in the context of performance analysis has been proposed by several authors [2,5,7,8,16,13,19,12,17,6] and may be considered as a de-facto standard. Therefore, we adopt the idea of generating performance models from a set of UML diagrams for performance analysis in early stages of development.…”

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“…For modelling non-functional hardware and software aspects, we adopt the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time Specification (SPT profile) [14], which also was proposed in several papers [19,3,2,11].…”

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“…execution graphs used in [18,17,7,6], petri nets utilised in [5,13], (extended) queueing networks instrumented in [2,18,17,7,12,6,11], or layered queueing networks [19,15]. A good overview of different methodologies, categorised amongst others by the kind of performance model, the modelling language used, and -in the case of UML -the diagrams chosen is given in [1].…”

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“…Moreover, we use sequence diagrams for modelling the behavioural aspects similar to [7,6,18,19,11] which use either generic message sequence charts or also UML sequence diagrams. In contrast to using activity diagrams which require an annotation of the required resource to the action [2], our approach employs composite structure diagram to associate software with hardware by reusing the system components defined in class diagrams.…”

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Performance Aware Design of Communication Systems

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Proceedings. 2006 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks

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In this paper we present a methodology for a performance aware design of communication systems including protocols and devices. The goal is to evaluate the performance already in early stages of the design process to avoid costly re-designs of bottlenecks in finished products. From protocol specifications given as sequence diagrams, we derive multiclass queueing networks as a means to estimate the performance of the system architecture before any executable prototype exists. This makes queueing theory accessible to system and protocol designers even if the designer is not familiar with details of queueing network theory. The methodology supports an easy evaluation of design alternatives without affecting the functional model. To achieve this, it incorporates the performance information into the system model in a non-invasive fashion, such that the system model remains meaningful without this information.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Performance Aware Design of Communication Systems

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Proceedings. 2006 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks

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“…These approaches are notable for their analytical solutions of the models. The work in recent years has focussed immensely on translation of high-level specification, to the formalisms accepted by such models [10], [6], [7], [17], assuming that a tool for the solution of the model is available. Some amount of work has also been done in developing more accurate (as opposed to generic) models of a system, so that more detailed behaviour can be specified and analyzed [8], or in developing models specific to certain software technologies [11], [16].…”

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PerfCenter: A Methodology and Tool for Performance Analysis of Application Hosting Centers

Verlekar

Apte

Goyal

et al. 2007

2007 15th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems

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Abstract-We present a tool, PerfCenter, that takes as input the deployment, configuration, message flow and workload details of the hardware and software servers in an application hosting center, and predicts the performance of the applications. We allow for a hierarchical specification of the data center, where software is deployed on machines, machines consist of hardware devices and are deployed on LANs. We also explicitly model network links between LANs and model the contention at those links due to messages exchanged between servers. While tools and methodologies for such analysis have been proposed earlier, our approach allows for the most natural specification of a "data center" architecture, and is best suited for aiding in design decisions regarding deployment and configuration of software on various hardware architecture scenarios. The tool takes this high level input and generates the underlying queueing network, which is then solved analytically. Since we allow for synchronous method calls, and model contention at software as well as hardware resources, the generated queueing network is solved using approximate methods. We validate the solution against results obtained from a measurement testbed, and found that the predicted values were reasonably accurate.

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