Title :
Optimizing Web Services Performance by Using Similarity-Based Multicast Protocol
Author :
Phan, Khoi Anh ; Tari, Zahir ; Bertok, Peter
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Technol., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, Vic.
Abstract :
Web services have emerged as a key technology that enables interoperability between distributed applications. It is desirable that SOAP, being the Web service transport protocol for interconnecting applications across organizations, performs efficiently in environments where there are a large number of transactions. This paper presents a novel approach to address this issue and hence improve Web services performance. We propose a similarity-based SOAP multicast protocol (SMP) that reduces the network load by optimizing the generated traffic size. In particular, SMP reuses the common template among the SOAP messages and only sends one copy of the common part to multiple clients. The results obtained from our experiments indicate that SMP achieved a 75 percent reduction in network traffic compared to traditional SOAP unicast
Keywords :
Web services; access protocols; multicast protocols; open systems; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; SOAP messages; Web service performance optimization; Web service transport protocol; application interconnection; distributed applications; interoperability; network traffic reduction; similarity-based SOAP multicast protocol; traffic size optimization; Application software; Broadcasting; Computer science; Multicast protocols; Multimedia communication; Simple object access protocol; Telecommunication traffic; Transport protocols; Unicast; Web services;
Conference_Titel :
Web Services, 2006. ECOWS '06. 4th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2737-X
DOI :
10.1109/ECOWS.2006.29