Transactional characterization of front-end e-commerce traffic

Author

Kant, Krishna ; Venkatachalam, M.

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

17-21 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

2523

Abstract

We provide a generic model to characterize transactional behavior in an e-commerce environment which can be applied to business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce sites, Business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce sites, and other (e.g., simple browsing) type of Web-sites. The ideas presented in this paper have been derived based upon detailed examination of the e-commerce server architecture and traffic from a couple of sites. The paper also studies the characterization of embedded requests. We also discuss how the transactional and embedded request models can be used in generation of artificial front-end e-commerce traffic in the laboratory for resource engineering of servers.

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; file servers; telecommunication traffic; HTML code; Web-sites browsing; artificial front-end e-commerce traffic; business-to-business e-commerce sites; business-to-consumer e-commerce sites; e-commerce server architecture; embedded request model; front-end e-commerce traffic; generic model; resource engineering; transactional characterization; transactional request model; Banking; Character generation; Costs; Electronic commerce; Statistical distributions; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002. GLOBECOM '02. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7632-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2002.1189085

Filename

1189085