Question

Resource utilization is the ratio of average _____ to average _____

(a) offered demand, effective capacity

(b) offered demand, offered capacity

(c) effective demand, effective capacity

(d) effective demand, offered capacity

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I'd like to ask this question from Performance Management Tradeoffs topic in portion Technology Tradeoffs in Software Defined Radio of Cognitive Radio

Answer 1

The correct choice is (a) offered demand, effective capacity

The explanation: Resource utilization relates processing demand to processing capacity. It is given by the ratio of average offered demand to average effective capacity. It can be estimated for buses, CPUs, storage devices, I/O devices, and DSP chips.