Performance evaluation of the ServerNet(R) SAN under self-similar traffic

Author

Avresky, D.R. ; Shurbanov, V. ; Horst, R. ; Mehra, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Comput. Eng., Boston Univ., MA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

12-16 Apr 1999

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

147

Abstract

Self-similar traffic distributions have been observed in a wide range of networking applications and models such as LANs, WANs, telnet, FTP, WWW, ISDN, SS7 and VBR traffic over ATM. Therefore, it has been suggested that many other theoretical protocols and systems need to be reevaluated under this different type of traffic before practical implementations potentially show their faults. The ServerNet SAN is a new core technology for server architectures that focuses on moving data. It is a wormhole-routed, packet-switched, point-to-point network with special attention paid to reducing latency and assuring reliability. In this paper we investigate the implications of self-similar traffic distributions in the ServerNet SAN, and compare the results with those obtained on the basis of the Poisson assumption

Keywords

network servers; performance evaluation; ServerNet SAN; packet-switched; performance evaluation; point-to-point network; reliability; self-similar traffic; server architectures; traffic distributions; wormhole-routed; Asynchronous transfer mode; Ethernet networks; ISDN; Optimization methods; Protocols; Storage area networks; Telecommunication traffic; Tellurium; Traffic control; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing, 1999. 13th International and 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1999. 1999 IPPS/SPDP. Proceedings

Conference_Location

San Juan

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0143-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1999.760449

Filename

760449