Improving website scalability using mathematical model and caching scheme / Katayoon Beetarafan

Web caching has been proved to be a highly efficient method in reducing the network bandwidth consumption, as well as decreasing the network's latency. In a web cache placement strategy, an important issue is to utilize the available resources by performing a cache placement to achieve the desi...

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Main Author: Beetarafan, Katayoon
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Language:English
Published: 2011
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spelling my-uitm-ir.633222022-08-11T01:45:53Z Improving website scalability using mathematical model and caching scheme / Katayoon Beetarafan 2011-04 Beetarafan, Katayoon World Wide Web. Web portals. Web site development Web caching has been proved to be a highly efficient method in reducing the network bandwidth consumption, as well as decreasing the network's latency. In a web cache placement strategy, an important issue is to utilize the available resources by performing a cache placement to achieve the desirable scalability. The current study has tried to explore the scalability improving strategies by taking advantage from the distributed cache placement technique. Therefore, a Finite Series Model (FSM) was introduced to analyze the hit ratio saving resulted from the copies made in the cache for the requested objects. By using this model, the scalability problem can be formulated as a function of the object requests that hit the server successfully. It was proved that the hit ratio for a single object on the origin server along adopted cache schemes follows the finite series functions. As a result, it was possible to achieve the mathematical solution by using such series. The scalability estimation and assessment was then proved by performing a case study to compare the actual data against the abstracted ones. Performance of the cache strategies were evaluated by considering the case study and taking advantage from the real workload traces. It was shown that both the client and the distributed caches performed well in the case study. 2011-04 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63322/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63322/1/63322%20%281%29.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences Mhd Nour, Nor Laila (Prof. Dr.)
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Mhd Nour, Nor Laila (Prof. Dr.)
topic World Wide Web
Web portals
Web site development
spellingShingle World Wide Web
Web portals
Web site development
Beetarafan, Katayoon
Improving website scalability using mathematical model and caching scheme / Katayoon Beetarafan
description Web caching has been proved to be a highly efficient method in reducing the network bandwidth consumption, as well as decreasing the network's latency. In a web cache placement strategy, an important issue is to utilize the available resources by performing a cache placement to achieve the desirable scalability. The current study has tried to explore the scalability improving strategies by taking advantage from the distributed cache placement technique. Therefore, a Finite Series Model (FSM) was introduced to analyze the hit ratio saving resulted from the copies made in the cache for the requested objects. By using this model, the scalability problem can be formulated as a function of the object requests that hit the server successfully. It was proved that the hit ratio for a single object on the origin server along adopted cache schemes follows the finite series functions. As a result, it was possible to achieve the mathematical solution by using such series. The scalability estimation and assessment was then proved by performing a case study to compare the actual data against the abstracted ones. Performance of the cache strategies were evaluated by considering the case study and taking advantage from the real workload traces. It was shown that both the client and the distributed caches performed well in the case study.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Beetarafan, Katayoon
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title Improving website scalability using mathematical model and caching scheme / Katayoon Beetarafan
title_short Improving website scalability using mathematical model and caching scheme / Katayoon Beetarafan
title_full Improving website scalability using mathematical model and caching scheme / Katayoon Beetarafan
title_fullStr Improving website scalability using mathematical model and caching scheme / Katayoon Beetarafan
title_full_unstemmed Improving website scalability using mathematical model and caching scheme / Katayoon Beetarafan
title_sort improving website scalability using mathematical model and caching scheme / katayoon beetarafan
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
granting_department Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
publishDate 2011
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63322/1/63322%20%281%29.pdf
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