FLEX: load balancing and management strategy for scalable Web hosting service

Author

Cherkasova, Ludmil A.

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

13

Abstract

FLEX is a new scalable “locality aware” solution for achieving both load balancing and efficient memory usage on a cluster of machines hosting several Web sites. FLEX allocates the sites to different machines in the cluster based on their traffic characteristics. This aims to avoid the unnecessary document replication to improve the overall performance of the system. The desirable routing can be done by submitting the corresponding configuration files to the DNS server since each hosted Web site has a unique domain name. FLEX can be easily implemented on top of the current infrastructure used by Web hosting service providers. Using a simulation model and a synthetic trace generator, we compare the Round-Robin based solutions and FLEX over the range of different workloads. For generated traces, FLEX outperforms Round-Robin based solutions 2-5 times

Keywords

document handling; file servers; information resources; resource allocation; workstation clusters; DNS server; FLEX; Round-Robin based solutions; Web hosting service providers; Web sites; configuration files; document replication; hosted Web site; load balancing; locality aware solution; machine cluster; management strategy; memory usage; routing; scalable Web hosting service; simulation model; synthetic trace generator; traffic characteristics; unique domain name; Bandwidth; File servers; Load management; Memory management; Milling machines; Read-write memory; Routing; Service oriented architecture; Switches; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2000. Proceedings. ISCC 2000. Fifth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Antibes-Juan les Pins

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0722-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2000.860535

Filename

860535