• DocumentCode
    2051789
  • Title

    Modeling user perceived unavailability due to long response times

  • Author

    Martinello, Magnos ; Kaâniche, Mohamed ; Kanoun, Karama ; Melchor, Carlos Aguilar

  • Author_Institution
    LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    25-29 April 2006
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we introduce a simple analytical modeling approach for computing service unavailability due to long response time, for infinite and finite single-server systems as well as for multi-server systems. Closed-form equations of system unavailability based on the conditional response time distributions are derived and sensitivity analyses are carried out to analyze the impact of long response time on service unavailability. The evaluation provides practical quantitative results that can help distributed system developers in design decisions
  • Keywords
    distributed processing; modelling; queueing theory; closed-form equations of system unavailability; computing service unavailability; conditional response time distributions; distributed system; finite single-server systems; infinite single-server systems; multiserver systems; user perceived unavailability; Analytical models; Availability; Delay; Equations; Mathematical model; Queueing analysis; Sensitivity analysis; Steady-state; Time factors; Time measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006. IPDPS 2006. 20th International
  • Conference_Location
    Rhodes Island
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0054-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639671
  • Filename
    1639671