Book review: The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis by R. Jain (Wiley-Interscience, 1991)

Abstract

This book grew out of the authors' experience teaching a course in performance evaluation to final year undergraduates. This heritage of undergraduate origins shows up throughout the book. The mathematics is presented very gently. For example, several complex formulas are written out twice, once without summation notation (i.e., a 1 +a 2 ...+a n ) and then again with summation notation (Σ a i ). There are numerous worked out examples, and a wide range of exercises, from simple ones that just use the formulas in the text to more challenging exercises.