Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction

flow, 220-21

for Markov chain, 357

Base addressing, 48

Bayes's theorem, 148

Benchmarks, 323

PC performance assessment, 376-78, 410-11

TPC-H, 433-34

types of, 323

Bernoulli process, 182-83

Bernoulli trials, 164, 165

Binominal distribution, 164-66

Birth-death process, 187-92

as continuous parameter discrete state space, 187

defined, 187

example, 187

general case, 190

graphical representation, 191

M/M/I queuing system, 207

properties, 187-88

state transition diagram, 189

transition rate diagram, 191

See also Stochastic processes

Branching probabilities, 235

Bridges, 56-57

defined, 56-57

illustrated, 57

See also Network architecture; Networks

Bus-structured LCN, 465-66

Bus topology, 57-58

Busy time, 313

Buzen's algorithm, 347