Abstract
With large numbers of geographically dispersed clients, a centralized approach to Internet-based application development is not scalable and also not dependable. This paper presents a decentralized approach to dependable Internet based application development, consisting of a logical structuring of collaborating subsystems of geographically-apart replicated servers. Two implementations of an Internet auction, one using a centralized approach and the other using our decentralized approach, are described. To evaluate the scalability of the two approaches, a number of experiments are performed on these implementations and the results presented here.
Measuring the Cost of Scalability and Reliability for Internet-Based, Server-Centered Applications
In 6th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2001), Rome, Italy, 8-10 January 2001
pp 59-68
IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001ISBN 0-7695-1068-X
[Abstract]