A Mean Value Analysis approach to transaction performance evaluation on multi-server systems

Author

Cavendish, Dirceu ; Oie, Yuji ; Koide, Hiroshi ; Gerla, Mario

Author_Institution

Network Design Res. Center, Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Iizuka, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 July 2009

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

55

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a mean value analysis based methodology for performance evaluation of transactions executed in a multi server distributed system. We first present probabilistic arguments to investigate under which conditions MVA models provide worst case response times, without large overshoots. Then, we show how to characterize the distributed server system so as to construct a model to predict response times as well as estimate system capacity. Finally, we exemplify the methodology usage via transactions implemented in two distributed Linux systems.

Keywords

Linux; distributed processing; file servers; performance evaluation; distributed Linux system; mean value analysis approach; multiserver distributed system; probabilistic argument; system capacity estimation; transaction performance evaluation; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer science; Delay; Design engineering; Network servers; Performance analysis; Predictive models; Queueing analysis; Routing; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2009. ISCC 2009. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sousse

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4672-8

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1346

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202404

Filename

5202404