Using the middle tier to understand cross-tier delay in a multi-tier application

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IPDPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Haichuan ^a   Tengt, Qiming ^a   Zhongt, Xiao ^a   Sweeney, Peter F ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross tier analysis; Multi tier application; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SERVERS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DATA-BASE SERVERS; ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; METHOD INVOCATION; MULTI-TIER; MULTI-TIER APPLICATIONS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERFORMANCE TOOLS; POOR PERFORMANCE; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

SERVERS;

EID: 77954008606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2010.5470449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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