@inproceedings{Reinecke09b, title = {{On the Cost of Generating PH-distributed Random Numbers}}, author = {Philipp Reinecke and Katinka Wolter and Levente Bodrog and Miklos Telek}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Performability Modeling of Computer and Communication Systems (PMCCS-9)}, year = {2009}, address = {Eger, Hungary}, editor = {Horv{\'a}th, G{\'a}bor and Joshi, Kaustubh and Heindl, Armin}, month = {September 17--18, 2009}, pages = {16--20}, abstract = {Phase-type (PH) distributions are proven to be very powerful tools in modelling and analysis of a wide range of phenomena in computer systems. The use of these distributions in simulation studies requires efficient methods for generating PH-distributed random numbers. In this work, we consider the cost of PH-distributed random-number generation.}, owner = {phr}, timestamp = {2009.10.14}, }