Title
Adaptive cache-driven request distribution in clustered EJB systems
Abstract
This paper presents an algorithm for request distribution in clustered EJB systems. A classification for EJB requests is first introduced, on which request distribution is based. The objective is to achieve load balancing and to enhance the caching performance in the EJB containers. The algorithm is based on periodically collecting traffic statistics from the EJB containers, and then solving a constrained optimization problem that finds the best distribution strategies for each request type. An event-driven simulator is built for the performance evaluation, where the TPC-W benchmark is used as the workload. Simulation results show that for relatively small sizes of the containers' caches, the algorithm outperforms the random and round robin algorithms, currently used in clustered EJB systems. In addition, it scales better with the cluster size and can adapt to the varying load patterns.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/ICPADS.2004.1316094
ICPADS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Java,benchmark testing,cache storage,discrete event simulation,distributed object management,optimisation,performance evaluation,resource allocation,workstation clusters,EJB containers,TPC-W benchmark,adaptive request distribution,cache-driven request distribution,clustered EJB systems,constrained optimization problem,container caches,event-driven simulator,load balancing,performance evaluation,random algorithm,round robin algorithm,traffic statistics
Load balancing (computing),Cache,Workload,Computer science,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Resource allocation,Constrained optimization problem,Java,Benchmark (computing),Discrete event simulation,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1521-9097
0-7695-2152-5
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hazem Elmeleegy130.61
Noha Adly2204.65
Magdy Nagi393.95