The Method of Layers

Author

Rolia, J.A. ; Sevcik, K.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

21

Issue

8

fYear

1995

fDate

8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

689

Lastpage

700

Abstract

Distributed applications are being developed that contain one or more layers of software servers. Software processes within such systems suffer contention delays both for shared hardware and at the software servers. The responsiveness of these systems is affected by the software design, the threading level and number of instances of software processes, and the allocation of processes to processors. The Method of Layers (MOL) is proposed to provide performance estimates for such systems. The MOL uses the mean value analysis (MVA) linearizer algorithm as a subprogram to assist in predicting model performance measures

Keywords

client-server systems; distributed processing; resource allocation; software performance evaluation; systems analysis; Method of Layers; contention delays; distributed applications; model performance measures; performance estimates; processor allocation; shared hardware; software design; software processes; software servers; threading level; value analysis linearizer algorithm; Application software; Computer architecture; Delay; Electronic switching systems; Hardware; Network servers; Predictive models; Software performance; System performance; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.403785

Filename

403785