Title :
WebTraff: a GUI for Web proxy cache workload modeling and analysis
Author :
Markatchev, Nayden ; Williamson, Carey
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada
Abstract :
The paper describes an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) that can be used for the modeling and analysis of Web proxy workloads. The WebTraff GUI has three main components. First, the WebTraff tool provides a visual front-end to ProWGen, a Web proxy workload generation tool developed in prior work (see Busari, M. and Williamson, C., Computer Networks, vol.38, no.6, p.779-94, 2002), which can be used for generating synthetic Web proxy workloads of arbitrary length, with user-specified statistical properties. Second, the WebTraff GUI provides tools for the analysis of Web proxy workload characteristics, including document size distribution, document popularity profile, and temporal locality properties. Third, the GUI provides a front-end to a simple Web proxy cache simulation program, which can be used in studies of Web proxy cache performance and cache filter effects.
Keywords :
Internet; cache storage; digital simulation; document handling; graphical user interfaces; interactive systems; telecommunication computing; telecommunication traffic; GUI; ProWGen; Web proxy cache; Web proxy workloads; WebTraff; cache filter effects; document popularity profile; document size distribution; interactive graphical user interface; simulation program; temporal locality properties; workload generation tool; Analytical models; Character generation; Communication system traffic control; Computer science; Graphical user interfaces; Information filtering; Information filters; Service oriented architecture; Traffic control; Uniform resource locators;
Conference_Titel :
Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, 2002. MASCOTS 2002. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1840-0
DOI :
10.1109/MASCOT.2002.1167096
