Workload Characterization and Modeling Book

by Dror G. Feitelson

This is the final version of a book I wrote, entitled Workload Modeling for Computer Systems Performance Evaluation. It was published by Cambridge University Press and is available for purchase from March 2015. It continues to be available here in pdf format despite being published commercially. Your are welcome to make one copy for your personal use, but further unauthorized distribution is not allowed. ©2014 All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Workload Data
3. Statistical Distributions
4. Fitting Distributions to Data
5. Heavy Tails
6. Correlations in Workloads
7. Self Similarity and Long-Range Dependence
8. Hierarchical Generative Models
9. Case Studies
10. Summary and Outlook

Links to data sources.

Please let me know if you find any typos or other problems (email ).

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