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when tenants are placed in on a shared resource environment the total capacity with mixed workload
of these tenants is less than that of when system is considered as single class. For instance,
if two tenants share 15 resource units each total workload capacity it can handle is approximately
60 req/sec. Such behavior also pointed out by Kwok et al in [10].
7. Summery
This chapter presented the characteristics, requirements and importance of a simulation environment
to represent a multi-client class system. Using popular discrete event simulation mechanism,
we presented an appropriate discrete event simulation model to implement multi-client
class systems with different settings. Then the model implementation was validated using queuing
theoretic principles. The simulation settings that will be used in the rest of the chapter were
also presented. Finally, the behavior of the simulation environments was compared to the behavior
of physical systems utilizing the case studies available from the literature.
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