CONSTRUCTION OF QUEUE-BASED SIMULATORS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS DISTRIBUTED ON COMPUTER NETWORKS

Abstract

Modern Internet and web applications involve interactions among remote host computers connected by communication networks. Simulation modelling is an important technique to evaluate performance in the implementation of a web-distributed application over given networks formed by computer hosts connected by heterogeneous networks. In this paper we extend a previous work concerning the construction of a queue-based simulator of communication networks. We define a set of new queue-based object types which permit us to specify the behaviour of a web-distributed application whose software components run over different hosts in a given communication network. We apply this technique to show how to build a simulator to evaluate the performance of various software architectures for a web-distributed application run over a given computer network.

Keywords

• queuing systems
• web-distributed applications
• computer networks simulation
• communication systems
• web interaction paradigms