Rice University
Department of Computer Science
presents
Nina Bhatti
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Support for Web Server Quality of Service
Abstract
The evolving needs of conducting commerce using the Internet requires
more than just network quality of service (QoS) mechanisms for
differentiated services. Empirical evidence suggests that overloaded
servers can have significant impact on user perceived response times.
Furthermore, FIFO scheduling done by servers can eliminate any QoS
improvements made by network differentiated services. Consequently,
Server QoS is a key component in delivering end to end predictable and
stable services to end users. In my talk I will describe our research
and results for WebQoS an architecture for supporting server QoS. We
demonstrate that through content adaptation, classification, admission
control, and scheduling we can support distinct performance levels for
different classes of users and maintain predictable performance even
when the server is subjected to a client request rate that is several
times greater than the server's maximum processing rate. Our technique
is to allocate server resources based on class of service to obtain
performance isolation between co-hosted web sites and guaranteed
performance differentiation between classes of clients.
Friday, December 10 @ 3:00 p.m. in DH 1049
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