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Generating Bursty Web Traffic for a B2C Web Server

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Computer Networks (CN 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 160))

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The paper deals with the problem of emulating highly bursty Web traffic that can be observed at inputs of Web servers hosting online Web stores. This problem is related to the broad issue of Web server performance prediction and evaluation through simulation experiments. Based on up-to-date results on real Web server workload analyses a workload model has been proposed. It combines a model of a user session at a Business-to-Consumer (B2C) Web site with HTTP-level workload models for business and non-business Web servers. The proposed model has been implemented in a workload generator. Based on statistics registered during a simulation experiment, a burstiness factor has been computed for the generated workload, which has proven to be highly variable and bursty.

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  1. Chair of Computer Science, Opole University of Technology, Sosnkowskiego 31, 45-272, Opole, Poland

    Grażyna Suchacka

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Suchacka, G. (2011). Generating Bursty Web Traffic for a B2C Web Server. In: Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21771-5_20

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