Using stochastic Petri nets for performance modelling of application servers

Author

Souza, Fábio N. ; Arteiro, Roberto D. ; Rosa, Nelson S. ; Maciel, Paulo R M

Author_Institution

Centro de Informatica, Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco, Caixa

fYear

2006

fDate

25-29 April 2006

Abstract

Application servers have been widely adopted as distributed infrastructure (or middleware) for developing distributed systems. Current approaches for performance evaluation of application servers have mainly concentrated on the adoption of measurement techniques. This paper, however, focuses on the use of simulation techniques and presents an approach for performance modelling and evaluation of application servers using Petri nets. In order to illustrate how the proposed approach may be applied, Petri net models of JBoss application server are presented and their performance results are compared with ones that have been measured

Keywords

Java; Petri nets; digital simulation; middleware; software performance evaluation; JBoss; application servers; distributed infrastructure; distributed systems development; middleware; performance evaluation; performance modelling; simulation techniques; stochastic Petri nets; Analytical models; Benchmark testing; Costs; Measurement techniques; Middleware; Network servers; Performance analysis; Petri nets; Predictive models; Stochastic processes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006. IPDPS 2006. 20th International

Conference_Location

Rhodes Island

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0054-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639650

Filename

1639650