Queueing analysis for multi-core performance improvement: Two case studies

Recently, performance optimization on multi-core platforms has received more and more interest especially for networking applications. While a number of previous studies have been made, there is however a lack of analytical treatment on the modeling of parallel processing. In this paper, we tackle the performance optimization problem using queueing analysis, employing a few queueing models to analyze two applications: network intrusion detection and Internet image retrieval.