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Mining Web Traces:Workload Characterization, Performance Diagnosis, and Applications
Lili QiuMicrosoft Research
Performance’2002, Rome, ItalySeptember 2002
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Motivation
Why do we care about Web traces? Content providers
How do users come to visit the Web site? Why do users leave the Web site? Is poor
performance the cause for this? Where are the performance bottlenecks? What content are users interested in? How do users’ interest vary in time? How do users’ interest vary across
different geographical regions?
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Motivation (Cont.)
Web hosting companies Accounting & billing Server selection Provisioning server farms: where to place servers
ISPs How to save bandwidth by storing proxy caches? Traffic engineering & provisioning
Researchers Where are the performance bottlenecks? How to improve Web performance? Examples: Traffic measurements have influenced
the design of HTTP (e.g., persistent connections and pipeline), TCP (e.g., initial congestion window)
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Tutorial Outline
Background Web workload characterization Performance diagnosis Applications of traces Bibliography
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Part I: Background
Web software components Web semantic components Web protocols Types of Web traces
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Web Software Components Web clients
An application that establishes connections to send Web requests
E.g., Mosaic, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft IE
Web servers An application that
accepts connections to service requests by sending back responses
E.g., Apache, Microsoft IIS
Web proxies (optional) Web replicas (optional)
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Web Semantic Components Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
An identifier for a Web resource Name of protocol: http, https, ftp, .. Name of the server Name of the resource on the server e.g., http://www.foobar.com/info.html
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Platform-independent styles (indicated by markup tags)
that define the various components of a Web document Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Define the syntax and semantics of messages exchanged between Web software components
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Example of a Web Transaction
BrowserWeb server
DNSserver1. DNS query
2. Setup TCP connection
3. HTTP request
4. HTTP response
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Internet Protocol Stack
Application layer: application programs (HTTP, Telnet, FTP, DNS)
Transport layer: error control + flow control (TCP,UDP)
Network layer: routing (IP)
Datalink layer: handle hardware details(Ethernet, ATM)
Physical layer: moving bits(coaxial cable, optical fiber)
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Web Protocols
HTTP
TCP
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Ethernet
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HTTP messages
TCP segments
A picture taken from [KR01]
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Ethernet Sonet Sonet Ethernet
IP pkt
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Web Protocols (Cont.) DNS [AL01]
An application layer protocol responsible for translating hostname to IP and vice versa (e.g., perf2002.uniroma2.it 160.80.2.140)
TCP [JK88] A transport layer protocol that does error control and flow
control Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
HTTP 1.0 [BLFF96] The most widely used HTTP version A “Stop and wait” protocol
HTTP 1.1 [GMF+99] Adds persistent connections, pipelining, caching, content
negotiation, …
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HTTP 1.0
HTTP request Request = Simple-Request | Full-Request
Simple-Request = "GET" SP Request-URI CRLF Full-Request = Request-Line;
*( General/Request/Entity Header) ; CRLF [ Entity-Body ] ;
Request-Line = Method SP Request-URI SP HTTP-Version CRLF Method = "GET" ;| "HEAD" ; | "POST" ;| extension-method
Example: GET /info.html HTTP/1.0
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HTTP 1.0 (Cont.)
HTTP response Response = Simple-Response | Full-Response
Simple-Response = [ Entity-Body ]Full-Response = Status-Line;
*( General/Response/Entity Header ); CRLF
[ Entity-Body ] ; Example:
HTTP/1.0 200 OKDate: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 06:07:53 GMTServer: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) PHP/4.0.6Last-Modified: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:58:59 GMTContent-Length: 21748Content-Type: text/htmlThis is the document content …<21748 bytes of the current version of info.html>
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HTTP 1.1 Connection management
Persistent connections [Mogul95] Use one TCP connection for multiple HTTP requests Pros:
Reduce the overhead of connection setup and teardown Avoid TCP slow start
Cons: head-of-line blocking increase servers’ state
Pipeline [Pad95] Send multiple requests without waiting for a response
between requests Pros: avoid the round-trip delay of waiting for each
response Cons: connection aborts are harder to deal with
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HTTP 1.1 (Cont.)
Caching Continues to support the notion of expiration
used in HTTP 1.0 Add a cache-control header to handle the issues
of cacheability and semantic transparency [KR01] E.g., no-cache, only-if-cache, no-store, max-age, max-
stale, min-fresh, … Others
Range request Content negotiation Security …
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Types of Web Traces
Application level traces Server logs: CLF and ECLF formats CLF format
<remoteIP,remoteID,usrName,Time,request,responseCode,contentLength>e.g., 192.1.1.1, -, -, 8/1/2000, 10:00:00, “GET /news/index.asp HTTP/1.1”, 200, 3410
Proxies logs: CLF and ECLF formats Client logs: no standard logging formats
Packet level traces Collection method: monitor a network link Available tools: tcpdump, libpcap, netmon Concerns: packet dropping, timestamp accuracy
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Tutorial Outline
Background Web workload characterization Performance diagnosis Applications of traces Bibliography
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Part II: Web Workload Characterization
Overview of workload characterization
Content dynamics Access dynamics Common pitfalls Case studies
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Overview of Workload Characterization
Process of trace analyses Common analysis techniques Common analysis tools Challenges in workload characterization
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Process of Trace Analyses
Collect traces where to monitor, how to collect (e.g.,
efficiency, privacy, accuracy) Determine key metrics to characterize Process traces Draw inferences from the data Apply the traces or insights gained from
the trace analyses to design better protocols & systems
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Common Analysis Techniques - Statistics
Mean Median Geometric mean: less sensitive to outliers
Variance and standard deviation
Confidence interval A range of values that has a specified probability of
containing the parameter being estimated Example: 95% confidence interval 10 x 20
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Common Analysis Techniques – Statistics (Cont.)
Cumulative distribution (CDF) Points: (x, P(X x))
Probability density function (PDF) Derivative of CDF: f(x) = dF(x)/dx
Check for heavy tail distribution Log-log complementary plot, and check its tail Example: Pareto distribution
If 2, distribution has infinite variance (a heavy tail)If 1, distribution has infinite mean
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Common Analysis Techniques – Data Fitting
Visually compare two distributions Chi Squared tests [AS86,Jain91]
Divide the data points into k bins Compute
If X2 X2(,k-c), then two distributions are close, where is significance level, c is the number of estimated parameters for the distribution + 1
Need enough samples Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests [AS86,Jain91]
Compares two distributions by finding the maximum differences between two variables’ cumulative distribution functions
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Common Analysis Techniques – Data Fitting (Cont.)
Anderson-Darling Test [Ste74] Modification of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, giving more
weight to the tails
If A critical value, two distributions are similar; otherwise they are not (F is CDF, and Yi are ordered data)
Quantile-quantile plots [AS86,Jain91] Compare two distributions by plotting the inverse of the
cumulative distribution function F-1(x) for two variables, and find best fitting line
If the slope of the line is close to 1, and y-intercept is close to 0, the two data sets are almost identically distributed
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Common Analysis Tools
Scripting languages Perl, awk, UNIX shell scripts, VB, …
Databases SQL, DB2, …
Statistics packages Matlab, S+, R, SAS, …
Write our own low level programs C, C++, C#, Java, …
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Challenges in Workload Characterization
Each of the Web components provides a limited perspective on the functioning of the Web
Workload characteristics vary both in space and in time
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Views from Clients
Capture clients’ requests to all servers Pros
Know details of client activities, such as requests satisfied by browser caches, client aborts
The ability to record detailed information, as this does not impose significant load on a client browser
Cons Need to modify browser software Hard to deploy for a large number of clients
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Views from Web Servers
Capture most clients’ requests (excluding those satisfied by caches) to a single server
Pros Relatively easy to deploy/change logging
software Cons
Requests satisfied by browser & proxy caches will not appear in the logs
May not log detailed information to ensure fast processing of client requests
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Views from Web Proxies Depending on the proxy’s location
A proxy close to clients see requests from a a small client group to a large number of servers [KR00]
A proxy close to the servers see requests from a large client group to a small number of servers [KR00]
Pros See requests from a diverse set of clients to a diverse set of
servers, and determine the popularity ranking of different Web sites
Useful for studying caching policies Ease of collection
Cons Requests satisfied by browser caches will not appear in the logs May not log detailed information to ensure fast processing of
requests
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Workload Variation Vary with measurement points Vary with sites being measured
Information servers (news site), e-commercial servers, query servers, streaming servers, upload servers
US vs. Italy, … Vary with the clients being measured
Internet clients vs. wireless clients University clients vs. home users US vs. Italy, …
Vary in time Day vs. night Weekday vs. weekend Changes with new applications, recent events Evolve over time, …
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Part II: Web Workload Overview Content dynamics Access dynamics Common pitfalls Case studies
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Content Dynamics
File types File size distribution File update patterns
How often files are updated How much files are updated
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File Types
Text files HTML, plain text, …
Images Jpeg, gif, bitmap, …
Applications Javascript, cgi, asp, pdf, ps, gzip, ppt, …
Multimedia files Audio, video
…
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File Size Distribution
Two definitions D1: Size of all files on a Web server D2: Size of all files transferred by a Web
server D1 D2, because some files can be
transferred multiple times or not in completion and other files are not transferred
Studies show that the distribution of file sizes in both definitions exhibit heavy tails (i.e., P[F > x] ~ x-, 0 2)
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File Update Interval
Varies in time Hot events and fast changing events require more
frequent update, e.g., Worldcup Varies across sites
Depending on server update policies & update tools Depending on the nature of content (e.g., University
sites have slower update rate than news sites) Recent studies
Study of the proxy traces collected at DEC and AT&T in 1996 showed the rate of change depended on content type, top-level domains etc. [DFK+97]
Study of 1999 MSNBC logs shows that modification history yields a rough predictor of future modification interval [PQ00]
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Extent of Change upon Modifications
Varies in time Different events trigger different amount of updates
Varies across sites Depending on servers’ update policies and update
tools Depending on the nature of the content
Recent studies Studies of 1996 DEC and AT&T proxy [MDF+97] and
1999 MSNBC log [PQ00] show that most file modifications are small delta encoding can be very useful
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Part II: Web Workload Motivation Limitations of workload
measurements Content dynamics Access Dynamics Common pitfalls Case studies
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Access Dynamics
File popularity distribution Temporal stability Spatial locality User request arrivals & durations
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Document Popularity
Web requests follow Zipf-like distribution Request frequency 1/i, where i is a document’s ranking The value of depends on the point of measurements
Between 0.6 and 1 for client traces and proxy traces Close to or larger than 1 for server traces [ABC+96, PQ00]
The value of varies over time (e.g., larger during hot events)
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Impact of the value Larger means more
concentrated accesses on popular documents caching is more beneficial
90% of the accesses are accounted by
Top 36% files in proxy traces [BCF+99, PQ00]
Top 10% files in small departmental server logs reported in [AW96]
Top 2-4% files in MSNBC traces
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Temporal Stability Metrics
Coarse-grained: likely duration that a current popular file remains popular
e.g., overlap between the set of popular documents on day 1 and day 2
Fine-grained: how soon a requested file will be requested again
e.g., LRU stack distance [ABC+96]
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File 4File 3
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File 3File 1
Stack distance = 4
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Spatial Locality
Refers to if users in the same geographical location or at the same organization tend to request the similar set of documents E.g., compare the degree of requests locally
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Spatial Locality (Cont.)
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User Request Arrivals & Duration User workload at three levels
Session: a consecutive series of requests from a user to a Web site
Click: a user action to request a page, submit a form, etc. Request: each click generates one or more HTTP requests
Exponential distribution [LNJV99,KR01] Session duration
Heavy-tail distribution [KR01] # clicks in a session, most in the range of 4-6 [Mah97] # embedded references in a Web page Think time: time between clicks Active time: time to download a Web page and its
embedded images
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Common Pitfalls Trace analyses are all about writing scripts & plotting
nice graphs Challenges
Trace collection: where to monitor, how to collect (e.g., efficiency, privacy, accuracy)
Identify important metrics, and understand why they are important
Sound measurements require disciplines [Pax97] Dealing with errors and outliers Draw implications from data analyses
Understanding the limitation of the traces No representative traces: workload changes in time and in
space Try to diversify data sets (e.g., collect traces at different
places and different sites) before jumping into conclusions Draw inferences more than what data show
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Part II: Web Workload Motivation Limitations of workload measurements Content dynamics Access dynamics Common pitfalls Case studies
Boston University client log study UW proxy log study MSNBC server log study Mobile server log study
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Case Study I: BU Client Log Study
Overview One of the few client log studies Analyze clients’ browsing pattern and their impact on
network traffic [CBC95] Approaches
Trace collection Modify Mosaic and distribute it to machines in CS Dept. at
Boston Univ. to collect client traces in 1995 Log format: <client machine, request time, user id, URI,
document size, retrieval time> Data analyses
Distribution of document size, document popularity Relationship between retrieval latency and response size Implications on caching strategies
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Major Findings
Power law distributions Distribution of document sizes Distribution of user requests for documents # requests to documents as a function of
their popularity Caching strategies should take into
account of document size (i.e., give preference to smaller documents)
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Case Study II: UW Proxy Log Study
Overview Proxy traces collected at the University of
Washington Approaches [WVS+99a, WVS+99b]
Trace collection: deploy a passive network sniffer between the Univ. of Washington and the rest of the Internet in May 1999
Set well-defined objectives Understand the extent of document sharing within
an organization and across different organizations Understand the performance benefit of cooperative
proxy caching
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Major Findings
Members of an organization are more likely to request the same documents than a random set of clients
Most popular documents are globally popular
Cooperative caching is most beneficial for small organizations
Cooperative caching among large organizations yield minor improvement if any
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Case Study III: MSNBC Server Log Study
Overview of MSNBC server site a large news site server cluster with 40 nodes 25 million accesses a day (HTML content
alone) Period studied: Aug. – Oct. 99 & Dec. 17, 98
flash crowd
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Approaches Trace collection
HTTP access logs Content Replication System (CRS) logs HTML content logs
Data analyses Content dynamics
How often files are modified? How to predict modification interval? How much does a file change upon modification?
Access dynamics Document popularity Temporal stability Spatial locality Correlation between document age and popularity
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Major Findings
Content dynamics Modification history is a rough predictor guide for setting
TTL, but need alternative mechanism (e.g., callback based invalidation) as backup
Frequent but minimal file modifications delta encoding Access dynamics
Set of popular files remains stable for days pushing/prefetching previous hot data that have undergone modifications
Domain membership has a significant bearing on client accesses except during a flash crowd of global interest make sense to have a proxy cache for an organization
Zipf-like distribution of file popularity but with a much larger than at proxies potential of reverse caching and replication
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Case Study IV: Mobile Server Log Study
Overview of a popular commercial Web site for mobile clients Content
news, weather, stock quotes, email, yellow pages, travel reservations, entertainment etc.
Services Notification Browse
Period studied 3.25 million notifications in Aug. 20 – 26, 2000 33 million browse requests in Aug. 15 – 26, 2000
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Approaches Analyze by user categories
Cellular users Browse the Web in real time using cellular technologies
Offline users Download content onto their PDAs for later (offline)
browsing, e.g. AvantGo Desktop users
Signup services and specify preferences Analyze by Web services
Browse Notifications
Use SQL database to manage data
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Major Findings
Notification Services Popularity of notification messages follows a Zipf-like
distribution, with top 1% notification objects responsible for 54-64% of total messages multicast notifications
Exhibits geographical locality useful to provide localized notification services
Browse Services 0.1% - 0.5% urls account for 90% requests cache the
results of popular queries The set of popular urls remain stable cache a stable
set of queries or optimize query based on a stable workload
Correlation between the two services Correlation is limited influence design of pricing plans
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Tutorial Outline
Background Web Workload Performance Diagnosis Applications of traces
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Part III: Performance Diagnosis
Overview of performance diagnosis Infer the causes of high end-to-end delay
in Web transfers [BC00] Infer the causes of high end-to-end loss
rate in Web transfers [CDH+99,DPP+01,NC01,PQ02, PQW02]
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Overview of Performance Diagnosis
Goal: Determine internal network characteristics
Metrics of interest Delay Loss rate Raw bandwidth Available bandwidth Traffic rate
Why interesting Resolve the trouble spots Server selection Placement of mirror
servers
Sprint
AT&T
Web Server
UUNET
MCI
Qwest AOL
EarthlinkWhy so slow?
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Finding the Sources of Delays Goal
Why is my Web transfer slow? Is it because of the server or the network or the client?
Sources of delay in Web transfer DNS lookup Server delays Client delays Network delays
Propagation delays Queuing delays Delays introduced by packet losses (e.g., signaled by
the fast retransmit mechanism or TCP timeouts)
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TCPEval Tool
Inputs: “tcpdump” packet traces taken at the communicating Web server and client
Generates a variety of statistics for file transactions File and packet transfer latencies Packet drop characteristics Packet and byte counts per unit time
Generates both timeline and sequence plots for transactions
Generates critical path profiles and statistics for transactions
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Critical Path Analysis Tool
Client Server Client ServerData flow Critical Path
Network delay
Network delayServer delayNetwork delay
Client delayNetwork delayServer delay
Network delaydue to pkt loss
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Finding Sources of Packet Losses Goal
Determine link loss rate or identify lossy links
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Under-constrained system of
equations
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Approaches Active probing
Probing Multicast probes Striped unicast probes
Inference technique: EM: a numerical algorithm to compute that maximizes P(D|), where D are observations, are ensemble of link loss rates
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Approaches (Cont.) Passive monitoring
Random sampling Random sample the solution space, and draw conclusions
based on samples Akin to monte carlo sampling
Linear optimization Determine a unique solution by optimizing an objective
function Gibbs sampling
Determine P(|D) by drawing samplings, where is ensemble of loss rates of links in the network, and D is observed packet transmission and losses at the clients
EM A numerical algorithm to compute that maximizes P(D|)
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Other Performance Studies using Web traces
Characterize Internet performance (e.g., spatial & temporal locality) [BSS+97]
Study the behavior of TCP during Web transfers [BPS+98]
Reconstruct different client page accesses and measure performance characteristics for the accesses [FCT+02]
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Tutorial Outline
Background Web Workload Performance Diagnosis Applications of traces Bibliography
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Part IV: Applications of Traces Synthetic workload generation Cache design
Cache replacement policies [CI97,BCF+99] Cache consistency algorithms [LC97, YBS99,YAD+01] Cooperative cache or not [WVS+99] Cache infrastructure
Pre-fetching algorithms [CB98, FJC+99] Placement of Web proxies/replicas [QPV01] Other optimizations
Improving TCP for Web transfers [Mah97,PK98,ZQK00] Concurrent downloads, pipelining, compression,…
…
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Synthetic Workload Generation
Generate user requests Generate user sessions using a Poisson arrival
process For each user session, determine # clicks
using a Pareto distribution Assign a click to a request for a Web page,
while making sure The popularity distribution of files follows a Zipf-like
distribution [BC98] Capture the temporal locality of successive requests
for the same resource Generate a next click from the same user with
think time following a Pareto distribution
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Synthetic Workload Generation (Cont.)
Generate Web pages Determine the number of Web pages Generate the size of each Web pages using a
log-normal distribution Associate a page with some number of
embedded pages using an empirical distribution (heavy-tail)
Generate file modification events Examples of generators
Webbench [Wbe], WebStone[TS95], Surge [BC98], SPecweb99 [SP99], Web Polygraph [WP], …
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Cache Replacement Policies Problem formulation
Given a fixed size cache, how to evict pages to maximize the hit ratio once the cache is full?
Hit ratio Fraction of requests satisfied by the cache Fraction of the total size of requested data satisfied by the
cache Factors to consider
Request frequency Modification frequency Benefit of caching: reduction in latency & BW Cost of caching: storage Caveat: NOT all hits are equal. Hit ratios do NOT map
directly to performance improvement.
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Cache Replacement Policies (Cont.) Approaches
Least recently used (LRU) Least frequently used (LFU)
Perfect: maintain counters for all pages seen In-cache: maintain counters only for pages that are in cache
GreedyDual-size [CI97] Assign a utility value to each object, and replace the one
with the lowest utility Use of traces
Evaluate the algorithms using trace-driven simulations or synthetic workload
Analytically derive the hit ratios for different replacement policies based on a workload model
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Placement of Web Proxies/Replicas
Problem formulation [JJK+01,QPV01] How to place a fixed number of
proxies/replicas to minimize users’ request latency
Factors to consider Spatial distribution of requests Temporal stability of requests
Stability in popularity of objects Stability in spatial distribution of requests
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Placement of Web Proxies/Replicas (Cont.) Approaches
Greedy placement Hot-spot placement Random placement
Use of traces Trace-driven simulations High concentration of requests to a small number
of objects focus on replicating only popular objects
Temporal stability in requests no need to frequently change the locations of proxies/replicas
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