Impact of resource locking on performance of web-based applications

Srimathy Mohan, Antonios Printezis and Mohammad Ferdous Alam

International Journal of Operational Research, 2010, vol. 8, issue 3, 355-378

Abstract: This paper develops a model and an algorithm to evaluate the effects of resource locking on the performance of internet applications. Resource locking is the phenomenon in which, after a request is sent, a front-end server is kept busy until the request's processing is completed at a secondary external server. This is related to, but different from, blocking in queueing networks and has significant capacity implications. The algorithm developed enables evaluation of a simplified Markov model for the system. The model is evaluated by benchmarking against simulation. The results can be used to aid performance evaluation, capacity planning and management.

Keywords: queueing; resource locking; capacity planning; internet applications; Markov modelling; simulation; performance evaluation, capacity management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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