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Dynamic Mirroring for Efficient Web Server Performance Management

Shadan SANIEPOUR E. , Behrouz Homayoun FAR, Jingde CHENG

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Server performance is a major issue in improving the overall performance of the World Wide Web (WWW). This article introduces a dynamic mirroring-based approach to improve WWW servers' performance. In contrast to static mirroring, where mirror servers are allocated statically, our mirror servers' setup is driven by network traffic measurement. Performance in terms of latency is inferred from a queuing model. According to this model we show that latency of an overloaded server can be tuned by delegating a portion of the load to a cooperative mirror server. Cost is evaluated by the amount of load hosted by the mirror servers. The goal is then to keep the latency within a tolerable threshold, while minimizing the delegated load. This problem is formulated as a constrained optimization problem where the task is to assign a portion of load corresponding to each document to each mirror server. As the result of this work, we will have a balanced load among the servers, and a smoother traffic along the Internet, as well. Empirical results show that this approach can guarantee to maintain the performance while showing a significant decrease in the amount of load transferred to the mirror servers.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E85-B No.8 pp.1585-1595
Publication Date
2002/08/01
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