Title
Modeling of concurrent web sessions with bounded inconsistency in shared data
Abstract
Client interactions with web-accessible network services are organized into sessions involving requests that read and write shared application data. When executed concurrently, web sessions may invalidate each other's data. Allowing the session with invalid data to progress might lead to financial penalties for the service provider, while blocking the session's progress will result in user dissatisfaction. A compromise would be to tolerate some bounded data inconsistency, which would allow most of the sessions to progress, while limiting the potential financial loss incurred by the service. This paper develops analytical models of concurrent web sessions with bounded inconsistency in shared data, which enable quantitative reasoning about these tradeoffs. We illustrate our models using the sample buyer scenario from the TPC-W benchmark, and validate them by showing their close correspondence to measured results in both a simulated and a real web server environments. We augment our web server with a profiling and automated decision making infrastructure which is shown to successfully choose the best concurrency control algorithm in real time in response to changing service usage patterns.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.jpdc.2007.03.004
J. Parallel Distrib. Comput.
Keywords
Field
DocType
real web server environment,analytic modeling,middleware,web server,service provider,web session,web-based network services,concurrent web session,service usage pattern,queueing theory,shared data,bounded inconsistency,e-commerce,bounded data inconsistency,dynamic adaptation,application data,concurrency control,client sessions with bounded inconsistency in shared data,invalid data,internet,information exchange,e commerce,web accessibility,algorithms,automation,mathematical models,adaptation,real time,electronic commerce,web application server,software metrics
Middleware,Shared memory,Concurrency control,Computer science,Parallel computing,Server,Computer network,Service provider,Web service,The Internet,Web server,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
67
7
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Totok1524.64
Vijay Karamcheti264667.03