When average is not average: Large response time fluctuations in n-tier systems

ICAC'12 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-42

  Wang, Qingyang ^a   Kanemasa, Yasuhiko ^b   Kawaba, Motoyuki ^b   Pu, Calton ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Burstiness; N tier system; Performance evaluation; Scalability; Soft resources; Web facing applications

Indexed keywords

BURSTINESS; END-TO-END RESPONSE TIME; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GARBAGE COLLECTION; L2 CACHE; N-TIER APPLICATIONS; N-TIER SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RESOURCE DEPENDENCIES; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SCHEDULING POLICIES; SOFT RESOURCES;

BENCHMARKING; SCALABILITY;

RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

EID: 84867726504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2371536.2371544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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