A Toolset for Performance Engineering and Software Design of Client-Server Systems (1996)
| Venue: | Performance Evaluation |
| Citations: | 22 - 11 self |
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@ARTICLE{Franks96atoolset,
author = {Greg Franks and Alex Hubbard and Shikharesh Majumdar and John Neilson and Dorina Petriu and Jerome Rolia and Murray Woodside},
title = {A Toolset for Performance Engineering and Software Design of Client-Server Systems},
journal = {Performance Evaluation},
year = {1996},
volume = {24},
pages = {1--2}
}
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Abstract
TimeBench/SRVN is a prototype toolset for computer-aided design and performance analysis of software, with an emphasis on distributed client-server systems. The performance behaviour of such systems may defy intuition because it involves factors in the software design (such as the partitioning of the functionality and the frequency with which requests will be made to each server) and in the configuration of the distributed system (including replication of services, the distribution of data, and the speed of network access). The novelty of the tool consists in providing support both for developing design specifications and also for performance analysis. The integrated approach avoids the semantic gap between a designer's domain and the performance modeling domain, and assists the designer to explore factors that impact the performance of a design. The performance models are based on the Stochastic Rendezvous Network (SRVN) formalism for client-server systems with synchronous service req...
