FOREBURST v0.1

Author: Daniel J. Dubois <daniel.dubois@imperial.ac.uk>

A MATLAB simulation tool to predict the performance of queueing networks
deployed on buirstable cloud resources such as Amazon EC2 T-family of VM 
instances.

Files:

BurstParams.m - a class for describing the burstable characteristics of
                a burstable instance. 

evalT2QN.m    - a function to evaluate a LINE-compliant queueing network in 
					 presence of burstable resources.

fmu.m			  - a function that converts the credit balance into a scaling
					 factor for the performance.

runExperiment.m - an automated screen for running an experiment with a simple 
						two-tier system QN composed by a web server and a DB server.
						The script provides graphical results.

exp1.m		  - an example of experiment in which the web server is twice
					 faster than the db server. This script is used to reproduce the
					 results of the SIMUTOOLS '16 paper.

exp2.m		  - an example of experiment in which the web server and the db
				    server have the same speed.

This tool depends on LINE v0.7.1+, which must be in the path.

Additional information on the files and their syntax is available in file
comments, which can be also read with the MATLAB 'help' command.

For a quick start in understanding the scripts, please look at the example
files exp1.m and exp2.m.

For any other information please email me at daniel.dubois@imperial.ac.uk.

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Last modified on August 5, 2016
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