Injecting realistic burstiness to a traditional client-server benchmark

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 149-158

  Mi, Ningfang ^a   Casale, Giuliano ^b   Cherkasova, Ludmila ^c   Smirni, Evgenia ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Burstiness; Client server benchmarks; Index of dispersion; Performance evaluation of self managed systems

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL PROCESS; AUTONOMIC SYSTEMS; BURSTINESS; CAPACITY PLANNING; CLIENT SERVER; CLIENT-SERVER BENCHMARKS; CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEMS; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INDEX OF DISPERSION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SELF-MANAGED SYSTEMS; REAL SYSTEMS; SINGLE PARAMETER; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; TESTING AND EVALUATION; WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 70049101642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555228.1555267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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