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PERMABASE
Participants: British Telecom, University of Kent at Canterbury, ERA Technology Ltd (first year only)
The PERformance Modelling for Atm Based Applications and SErvices (PERMABASE) project is concerned with bringing the advantages of performance modelling into the realm of the distributed system designer. Performance model generation is of primary concern within a project, however, the majority of system designers are not performance experts. The system hardware and software designers should be primarily concerned with the process of designing the system, and not spending their time and energy on the generation of a performance model.
The PERMABASE approach is to automatically generate performance models directly from the system design model created as part of the normal design process.
Key achievements of the project are:
- Production of a prototype toolkit that demonstrates the techniques developed during the lifetime of the project.
- Development of a technique for using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) to capture the complete system design model - including harware, software, and workload aspects.
- Development of model checking and transformation algorithms to generate a Descrete Event Simulation based Performance Model, from the specified design model.
- Development of techniqes to model hardware, software and workload aspects of a system design within a Descrete Event Simulation environment.
Related Publications
A Review of the PERMABASE project (slide show)
