relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2568/
title: Partial evaluation of PEPA models for fluid-flow analysis
creator: Clark, Allan
creator: Duguid, Adam
creator: Gilmore, Stephen
creator: Tribastone, Mirco
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: We present an application of partial evaluation to performance models expressed in the PEPA stochastic process algebra [1]. We partially evaluate the state-space of a PEPA model in order to remove uses of the cooperation and hiding operators and compile an arbitrary sub-model into a single sequential component. This transformation is applied to PEPA models which are not in the correct form for the application of the fluid-flow analysis for PEPA [2]. The result of the transformation is a PEPA model which is amenable to fluid-flow analysis but which is strongly equivalent [1] to the input PEPA model and so, by an application of Hillston’s theorem, performance results computed from one model are valid for the other. We apply the method to a Markovian model of a key distribution centre used to facilitate secure distribution of cryptographic session keys between remote principals communicating over an insecure network.
publisher: Springer
date: 2008
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Clark, Allan and Duguid, Adam and Gilmore, Stephen and Tribastone, Mirco  Partial evaluation of PEPA models for fluid-flow analysis.   In:  Computer Performance Engineering.   Lecture Notes in Computer Science  (5261).  Springer, pp. 2-16.  ISBN 978-3-540-87412-6      (2008)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87412-6_2
relation: 10.1007/978-3-540-87412-6_2