Use of queuing network models as tools to evaluate the performance of centralized and distributed computer systems.

CILO-1: Evaluate and apply different approaches to modelling a computer system. CILO-2: Identify the issues in building a simulation of a computer system and analysing the results obtained. CILO-3: State the concept of a stochastic process and how they arise in practice. CILO-4: Build simple Markov models and identify the critical modelling assumptions and solve simple birth-death processes. CILO-5: Model a computer system as a linear time-invariant system.