Performance Guarantees for Web Server End-Systems: A Control-Theoretical Approach
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Queueing Model Based Network Server Performance Control
RTSS '02 Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
An analytical model for multi-tier internet services and its applications
SIGMETRICS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Resource Allocation for Autonomic Data Centers using Analytic Performance Models
ICAC '05 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Computing
Dynamic placement for clustered web applications
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Modeling Differentiated Services of Multi-Tier Web Applications
MASCOTS '06 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
Feedback Control Architecture and Design Methodology for Service Delay Guarantees in Web Servers
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
eQoS: Provisioning of Client-Perceived End-to-End QoS Guarantees in Web Servers
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Provisioning servers in the application tier for e-commerce systems
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
A performance analysis method for autonomic computing systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Adaptive overload control for busy internet servers
USITS'03 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 4
A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Dynamic Resource Provisioning of Multi-Tier Applications
ICAC '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Exploiting nonstationarity for performance prediction
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2007
Agile dynamic provisioning of multi-tier Internet applications
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
A survey of autonomic computing—degrees, models, and applications
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A Hybrid Reinforcement Learning Approach to Autonomic Resource Allocation
ICAC '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Autonomic Provisioning of Backend Databases in Dynamic Content Web Servers
ICAC '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Burstiness in Multi-tier Applications: Symptoms, Causes, and New Models
Middleware '08 Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference
Automated control of multiple virtualized resources
Proceedings of the 4th ACM European conference on Computer systems
Using a fuzzy classification approach to assess e-commerce Web sites: An empirical investigation
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Injecting realistic burstiness to a traditional client-server benchmark
ICAC '09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Autonomic computing
A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Online Web Systems Auto-configuration
ICDCS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Online response time optimization of Apache web server
IWQoS'03 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Quality of service
Efficient resource provisioning in compute clouds via VM multiplexing
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Autonomic computing
Autonomic mix-aware provisioning for non-stationary data center workloads
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Autonomic computing
Stochastic approximation control of power and tardiness in a three-tier web-hosting cluster
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Autonomic computing
Probabilistic performance modeling of virtualized resource allocation
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Autonomic computing
Mistral: Dynamically Managing Power, Performance, and Adaptation Cost in Cloud Infrastructures
ICDCS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Autonomic Provisioning with Self-Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Control for End-to-end Delay Guarantee
MASCOTS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Online Capacity Identification of Multitier Websites Using Hardware Performance Counters
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Queueing-Model-Based Adaptive Control of Multi-Tiered Web Applications
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
NINEPIN: Non-invasive and energy efficient performance isolation in virtualized servers
DSN '12 Proceedings of the 2012 42nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
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Autonomic server provisioning for performance assurance is a critical issue in Internet services. It is challenging to guarantee that requests flowing through a multi-tier system will experience an acceptable distribution of delays. The difficulty is mainly due to highly dynamic workloads, the complexity of underlying computer systems, and the lack of accurate performance models. We propose a novel autonomic server provisioning approach based on a model-independent self-adaptive Neural Fuzzy Control (NFC). Existing model-independent fuzzy controllers are designed manually on a trial-and-error basis, and are often ineffective in the face of highly dynamic workloads. NFC is a hybrid of control-theoretical and machine learning techniques. It is capable of self-constructing its structure and adapting its parameters through fast online learning. We further enhance NFC to compensate for the effect of server switching delays. Extensive simulations demonstrate that, compared to a rule-based fuzzy controller and a Proportional-Integral controller, the NFC-based approach delivers superior performance assurance in the face of highly dynamic workloads. It is robust to variation in workload intensity, characteristics, delay target, and server switching delays. We demonstrate the feasibility and performance of the NFC-based approach with a testbed implementation in virtualized blade servers hosting a multi-tier online auction benchmark.