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Web Server Performance Modeling

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R. D. Van Der Mei,

P. K. ReeserAuthors Info & Claims

Telecommunications Systems, Volume 16, Issue 3-4

Pages 361 - 378

https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016667027983

Published: 01 March 2001 Publication History

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The advent of Web technology has made Web servers core elements of future communication networks. Although the amount of traffic that Web servers must handle has grown explosively during the last decade, the performance limitations and the proper tuning of Web servers are still not well understood. In this paper we present an end-to-end queueing model for the performance of Web servers, encompassing the impacts of client workload characteristics, server harware/software configuration, communication protocols, and interconnect topologies. The model has been implemented in a simulation tool, and performance predictions based on the model are shown to match very well with the performance of a Web server in a test lab environment. The simulation tool forms an excellent basis for development of a Decision Support System for the configuration tuning and sizing of Web servers.

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cover image Telecommunications Systems

Telecommunications Systems Volume 16, Issue 3-4

March 2001

321 pages

ISSN:1018-4864

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