Title :
A Web Access SHaping method to improve the performance of congested servers
Author :
Kurebayashi, Ryosuke ; Obana, Kazuaki ; Uematsu, Hitoshi ; Ishida, Osamu
Author_Institution :
NTT Network Innovation Labs., Yokosuka
Abstract :
This paper proposes WASH, a Web Access SHaping method, to realize overload-tolerant and highly accessible web sites. Due to the explosive spread of the Internet and emerging sophisticated web applications, servers will become the bottlenecks of the Web. WASH works as a reverse proxy with load balancing and improves the service quality of popular servers. WASH provides two innovative mechanisms: load control with active process limit and application-aware request scheduling. Comparative experiments against current load balancers demonstrate the following superiority of WASH in handling heavy congestion: a) WASH keeps the response time for single page display to below 5 seconds and b) WASH maximizes the throughput of completed page displays and sessions.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; network servers; resource allocation; WASH; Web access shaping method; Web sites; active process limit; application-aware request scheduling; congested servers; load balancing; overload-tolerant; service quality; Degradation; Delay; Displays; Explosives; Load flow control; Network servers; Throughput; Traffic control; Web pages; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Telecommunication Technologies, 2008. APSITT. 7th Asia-Pacific Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Bandos Island
Print_ISBN :
978-4-88552-226-0
DOI :
10.1109/APSITT.2008.4653551
