NDLI: ReDAL: Request Distribution for the Application Layer

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	VanderMeer, D. Thomas, H. Dutta, K. Datta, A. Ramamritham, K.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Chutney Technol., Atlanta, GA (VanderMeer, D.)
Abstract	Modern application infrastructures are based on clustered, multi-tiered architectures, where request distribution occurs in two sequential stages: over a cluster of Web servers, and over a cluster of application servers. Much work has focused on strategies for distributing requests across a Web server cluster in order to improve overall throughput across the cluster. The strategies applied at the application layer are the same as those at the Web server layer, because it is assumed that they transfer directly. In this paper, we argue that the problem of distributing requests across an application server cluster is fundamentally different from the Web server request distribution problem, due to core differences in request processing in Web and application servers. We devise an approach for distributing requests across a cluster of application servers such that overall system throughput is enhanced, and load across the application servers is balanced. We compare the performance of our approach-with widely used industrial and recently proposed techniques from the literature experimentally in terms of throughput and response time performance, as well as resource utilization. Our experimental results show a significant improvement of up to nearly 80% in both throughput and response time, with a very low additional cost in terms of CPU overheads, 0.1% to 1.5%, on the Web server, and virtually no impact on CPU overheads on the application server
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Comm. on Distributed Process. (TCDP)
Starting Page	717
Ending Page	726
File Size	208503
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769523315
ISSN	10636927
DOI	10.1109/ICDCS.2005.65
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-06-06
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Web server Throughput Switches Service oriented architecture Delay Runtime Routing Resource management Costs Java
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software

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