Title
Exploiting Service Usage Information for Optimizing Server Resource Management
Abstract
It is often difficult to tune the performance of modern component-based Internet services because: (1) component middleware are complex software systems that expose several independently tuned server resource management mechanisms; (2) session-oriented client behavior with complex data access patterns makes it hard to predict what impact tuning these mechanisms has on application behavior; and (3) component-based Internet services themselves exhibit complex structural organization with requests of different types having widely ranging execution complexity. In this article we show that exposing and using detailed information about how clients use Internet services enables mechanisms that achieve two interconnected goals: (1) providing improved QoS to the service clients, and (2) optimizing server resource utilization. To differentiate among levels of service usage (service access) information, we introduce the notion of the service access attribute and identify four related groups of service access attributes, encompassing different aspects of service usage information, ranging from the high-level structure of client web sessions to low-level fine-grained information about utilization of server resources by different requests. To show how the identified service usage information can be collected, we implement a request profiling infrastructure in the JBoss Java application server. In the context of four representative service management problems, we show how collected service usage information is used to improve service performance, optimize server resource utilization, or to achieve other problem-specific service management goals.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1993083.1993084
ACM Trans. Internet Techn.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Exploiting Service Usage Information,representative service management problem,component-based Internet service,service performance,service access attribute,modern component-based Internet service,problem-specific service management goal,Internet service,service client,service access,Optimizing Server Resource Management,service usage information
Journal
11
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1533-5399
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
73
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Totok1524.64
Vijay Karamcheti264667.03