1995 Volume 1995 Pages 155-160
An aggregate approach of extended stochastic Petri net (ESPN) model and Markov renewal process with some non-regeneration points is applied to conduct performance analysis of an Ethernet-based client-server system. Petri net is used because of its highly visual nature that can give insight into the nature of the modeled system. Markov renewal process is introduced to increase the analytical power of the ESPN model. Modeling and analytical approach used in this paper is different from prevalent methods because of its potential advantage to distinguish the system states between regeneration points and non-regeneration points as well as to incorporate arbitrary time distributions to the ESPN model. The proposed approach may improve efficiency of performance analysis for most practical parallel/distributed systems.
