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Kernel Content-Aware QoS for Web Clusters

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While content-aware QoS is increasingly desired for cluster-based Web systems, the high processing overhead it caused can easily make the Web switch a system bottleneck. In this paper, we present a more scalable architecture in which content-aware request distribution and service differentiation can be performed on the back-end server nodes. Based on this scalable architecture, a kernel content-aware QoS mechanism is proposed for Web clusters. Simulation results demonstrate that this kernel content-aware QoS mechanism can provide guaranteed performance for preferred clients even when the server is subjected to a client request rate that is several times greater than the server’s maximum processing rate.

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Du, ZK., Ju, Jb. (2004). Kernel Content-Aware QoS for Web Clusters. In: Li, M., Sun, XH., Deng, Q., Ni, J. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing. GCC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3033. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24680-0_53

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