Measuring the cost of scalability and reliability for Internet-based, server-centered applications

Author

Ezhilchelvan, Paul ; Khayyambashi, Mohammad-Reza R. ; Morgan, Graham ; Palmer, Doug

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

66

Abstract

With large numbers of geographically dispersed clients, a centralized approach to Internet-based application development is not scalable and also not dependable. This paper presents a decentralized approach to dependable Internet-based application development, consisting of a logical structuring of collaborating sub-systems of geographically separated replicated servers. Two implementations of an Internet auction, one using a centralized approach and the other using our decentralized approach, are described. To evaluate the scalability of the two approaches, a number of experiments are performed on these implementations and the results are presented

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; distributed object management; multicast communication; network servers; reliability; replicated databases; CORBA; Internet auction; Internet-based server-centred applications; asynchronous networks; centralized approach; collaborating subsystems; decentralized approach; dependable Internet-based application development; distributed servers; geographically dispersed clients; geographically separated replicated servers; logical structuring; membership service; multicast groups; passive replication; reliability; reliable multicasting; scalability cost; synchronous networks; Availability; Collaboration; Costs; Degradation; Delay; IP networks; Internet; Network servers; Scalability; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, 2001. Proceedings. Sixth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1530-1443

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1068-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WORDS.2001.945114

Filename

945114