Title

Modeling and performance analysis of QoS-aware load balancing of Web-server clusters

Authors

Authors

Z. G. Shan; C. Lin; D. C. Marinescu;Y. Yang

Abbreviated Journal Title

Comput. Netw.

Keywords

Web quality of service; load balancing; web-server cluster; stochastic; high-level Petri net; performance analysis; PETRI NETS; Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture; Computer Science, Information; Systems; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Telecommunications

Abstract

This paper introduces mechanisms to correlate contents and priorities of incoming HTTP requests used for server process scheduling with the load balancing policies for Web-server clusters. This approach enables both load balancing and Web quality of service (QoS). Another contribution is a modeling and analysis technique based on stochastic high-level Petri net methods for QoS-aware load balancing. We propose an approximate analysis technique to reduce the complexity of the model. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Computer Networks

Volume

40

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

235

Last Page

256

WOS Identifier

WOS:000178335000003

ISSN

1389-1286

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