A Performance Isolation Mechanism Based on Fuzzy Technique for Web Server Load Balancing

Bumjoo PARK  Kiejin PARK  Bongjun KIM 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E92-B  No.4  pp.1086-1093
Publication Date: 2009/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Internet Technology and its Architecture for Ambient Information Systems)
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Keyword: 
fuzzy control techniqueperformance isolationdifferentiated services

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Summary: 
In this study, a performance isolation mechanism based on a fuzzy control technique is developed in such a way that ambiguous situations caused when estimating the workload of cluster-based web servers, client request rates, and dynamic request rates can be represented effectively. The proposed mechanism involving a fuzzy-based technique is compared with a non-fuzzy technique in terms of the response time in the 95th percentile. Experiments showed that the proposed technique improves the performance of web servers that provide differentiated services.