blusseau,f.-a simulation annealing and resource location in computer networks
Today more and more firms use LAN (Local Area Networks), and the number of connected workstations increases quickly sometimes without any predefined policy. Moreover, numerous services are implemented, such as remote login or mailing, in order to help users in the best utilization of existing communication systems. This implies an increase of the medium load, so the local area network performance definitely deteriorates.The problem now is to find out whether excess load brought about by the addition of connected workstations on the LAN, and by using a high level service such as NFS, saturates the network. This is the aim of our work.The methodology we used relies on performance evaluation techniques, modelling queueing networks. In order to solve the model we obtained, we used discrete event simulation to give us the results we needed.
simulation local area networks nfs modelling queueing networks