Translation from UML to SPN model: A performance modeling framework

This work focuses on the delineating a performance modeling framework for a communication system that proposes a translation process from high level UML notation to Stochastic Petri Net model (SPN) and solves the model for relevant performance metrics. The framework utilizes UML collaborations, activity diagrams and deployment diagrams to be used for generating performance model for a communication system. The system dynamics will be captured by UML collaboration and activity diagram as reusable specification building blocks, while deployment diagram highlights the components of the system. The collaboration and activity show how reusable building blocks in the form of collaboration can compose together the service components through input and output pin by highlighting the behavior of the components. Later a mapping between collaboration and system component identified by deployment diagram will be demonstrated. Moreover the UML models are annotated to associate performance related quality of service (QoS) information for solving the performance model for relevant performance metrics to generate performance evaluation results.