Modeling 3-tiered web applications

Xue Liu, Jin Heo, Lui Sha

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Abstract

The rapid advancement and deployment of Web applications call for a precise yet simple model for capacity planning and analysis purposes. The most widely deployed Web application architecture is the 3-tiered system, which is composed of a front-end Web server, an application server and a hackend database server. In this paper, we present an analytical model of the 3-tiered Web application architecture. We show by using queueing network theory, we can model the 3-tiered Web application architecture accurately. A test-bed is built to measure model parameters based on industry standard server components and TPC-W benchmark. Validation results show that the proposed model predicts performance measures such as response time and throughput accurately.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMASCOTS 2005
Subtitle of host publication13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
Pages307-310
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
EventMASCOTS 2005: 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: Sep 27 2005Sep 29 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS
Volume2005
ISSN (Print)1526-7539

Other

OtherMASCOTS 2005: 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period9/27/059/29/05

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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