Title
MEANS: A Micro-thrEad Architecture for Network Server
Abstract
Internet applications require high-performance net-work server architecture. This paper proposes a kind of software architecture for network server, MEANS, which aims at supporting Internet applications. By introducing a new thread abstraction, micro-thread, MEANS upwardly provides the micro-thread environment to programmers, and downwardly accesses the OS services concurrently through traditional thread primitives, and uses the event-driven mechanism to manage and schedule micro-threads, which takes advantage of both multithread and event-driven architecture. Moreover, MEANS is general, scalable, robust and adaptable. By preliminary evaluation, in terms of the concurrence policy, MEANS has features similar to event-driven architecture; and it outperforms multithread architecture in I/O accessing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/PDP.2008.17
PDP
Keywords
Field
DocType
network server,internet application,means upwardly,new thread abstraction,micro-thread architecture,multithread architecture,high-performance net-work server architecture,event-driven architecture,micro-thread environment,software architecture,event-driven mechanism,server,architecture,performance,internet,i o,multi threading
Space-based architecture,Data architecture,Computer science,Computer network,Enterprise architecture framework,Distributed computing,Cellular architecture,Database-centric architecture,Applications architecture,Solution architecture,Parallel computing,Reference architecture,Operating system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1066-6192
2
0.39
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yingchun Lei152.17
Wen Zhang231.75
Yili Gong3558.89
Huyin Zhang465.22