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The paper concerns a problem of the e-commerce Web server system performance evaluation through simulation experiments, especially a problem of modeling a representative stream of user requests at the input of such system. Motivated by a need of a benchmarking tool for the Business-to-Consumer (B2C) environment we discuss a workload model typical of such Web sites and also a model of a multi-tiered e-commerce Web server system. A simulation tool in which the proposed models have been implemented is briefly talked over and some experimental results on the Web system performance in terms of traditional and business performance measures are presented.
This work was supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education under Grant No. N516 032 31/3359 (2006–2009).
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Borzemski, L., Suchacka, G. (2009). Web Traffic Modeling for E-Commerce Web Server System. In: Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02671-3_18
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