Paper Info
Title
An analysis of the optimal number of servers in distributed client/server environments
Abstract
In the client/server model for distributed on-line requests processing, the concept of a server class that consists of multiple identical servers is often provided for the fast response time, high fault-tolerance, or continuous availability. As far as we are aware of, there is no concrete formulation that provides the optimal number of servers of a server class in distributed client/ server systems. The number of servers has been usually chosen only by heuristic methods or statistics after monitoring system behavior for some periods of time.In this paper, we propose a method based on queuing theory that determines the optimal number of servers in a server class for a general distributed client/server model that encompasses the state-of-the-art on-line transaction processing environment described in the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1016/S0167-9236(02)00142-2
Decision Support Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiple identical server,optimal number of servers,queuing model,server class,on-line requests processing,continuous availability,concrete formulation,distributed client/server model,state-of-the-art on-line transaction processing,server model,optimal number,server system,fast response time,server environment,fault tolerant,client server,queuing theory
Log shipping,Client,Server farm,Computer science,Server,Reverse proxy,Application server,Fat client,Client–server model,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
3
Decision Support Systems
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.78
12
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jin Hyun Son121718.21
Myoung Ho Kim21040273.40