Trade-offs in designing web clusters

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 76-80

  Menascé, Daniel A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUEUEING THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

CLUSTER CAPACITY; LOAD BALANCING; POISSON PROCESS; WEB CLUSTERS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 0036756455     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2002.1036041     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. D.A. Menascé and V.A.F. Almeida, Scaling for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2000.
2. D.A. Menascé and V.A.F. Almeida, Capacity Planning for Web Services: Metrics, Models, and Methods, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2002.
3. L. Kleinrock, Queueing Systems: Volume I: Theory, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1975.
4. J.C. Little, "A Proof of the Queuing Formula L = λW," Operations Res., vol. 9, no. 3, 1961, pp. 383-387.
5. M. Andreolini, M. Colajanni, and R. Morselli, "Performance Study of Dispatching Algorithms in Multi-tier Web Architectures," ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Rev., vol. 30, no. 2, Sep. 2002.
6. V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, and P.S. Yu, "Dynamic Load Balancing on Web Server Systems," IEEE Internet Computing, May/June 1999, pp. 28-39.
7. M. Arlitt and C. Williamson, "Web Server Workload Characterization: The Search for Invariants," Proc. 1996 ACM Sigmetrics Conf. Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems, ACM Press, New York, 1996, pp. 126-137.
8. M. Crovella and A. Bestravos, "Self-Similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Possible Causes," Proc. 1996 ACM Sigmetrics Conf. Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems, ACM Press, New York, 1996, pp. 160-169.