NDLI: MEANS: A Micro-thrEad Architecture for Network Server

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yingchun Lei Wen Zhang Yili Gong Huyin Zhang
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Wuhan Univ., Wuhan (Yingchun Lei; Wen Zhang)
Abstract	Internet applications require high-performance network server architecture. This paper proposes a kind of software architecture for network server, MEANS, which aims at supporting Internet applications. By introducing a new thread abstraction, micro-thread, MEANS upwardly provides the micro-thread environment to programmers, and downwardly accesses the OS services concurrently through traditional thread primitives, and uses the event-driven mechanism to manage and schedule micro-threads, which takes advantage of both multithread and event-driven architecture. Moreover, MEANS is general, scalable, robust and adaptable. By preliminary evaluation, in terms of the concurrence policy, MEANS has features similar to event-driven architecture; and it outperforms multithread architecture in I/O accessing.
Starting Page	38
Ending Page	42
File Size	589847
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769530895
ISSN	10666192
DOI	10.1109/PDP.2008.17
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-02-13
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Network servers Application software Yarn Computer architecture IP networks Programming profession Internet Robustness Logic Concurrent computing I/O Server Performance Architecture Concurrence
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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