Paper Info
Title
A hybrid monitor for behavior and performance analysis of distributed systems
Abstract
The authors describe a hybrid monitor for measuring the performance and observing the behavior of distributed systems during execution. They emphasize data collection, analysis and presentation of execution data. A special hardware support, which consists of a test and measurement processor (TMP), was designed and has been implemented in the nodes of experimental multicomputer system consisting of eleven nodes. The operations of the TMP are completely transparent with a minimal, less than 0.1%, overhead to the measured system. In the experimental system, all the TMPs were connected with a central monitoring station, using an independent communication network, in order to provide a global view of the monitored system. The central monitoring station displayed the resulting information in easy-to-read charts and graphs. Experience with the TMP shows that it promotes an improved understanding of run-time behavior and performance measurements, which aids in deriving qualitative and quantitative assessments of distributed systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
1990
10.1109/32.44382
Monitoring and debugging of distributed real-time systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
distributed processing,performance evaluation,program testing,TMP,behaviour analysis,communication network,data collection,distributed systems,execution data,experimental multicomputer system,hardware support,hybrid monitor,performance analysis,qualitative assessments,quantitative assessments,test and measurement processor
Data collection,Graph,Telecommunications network,Experimental system,System testing,Computer science,Real-time computing,Interference (wave propagation),Control system,Debugging,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
2
0098-5589
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-6537-8
55
5.63
References 
Authors
20
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dieter Haban1668.13
Dieter Wybranietz2679.28