WebTraff: A GUI for Web Proxy Cache Workload Modeling and Analysis

  • Authors:
  • N. Markatchev;C. Williamson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • MASCOTS '02 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes an interactive graphical user interface(GUI) that can be used for the modeling and analysis of Webproxy workloads. The WebTraff GUI has three main components.First, the WebTraff tool provides a visual front-endto ProWGen, a Web proxy workload generation tool developedin prior work, which can be used for generating syntheticWeb proxy workloads of arbitrary length, with user-specifiedstatistical properties. Second, the WebTraff GUIprovides tools for the analysis of Web proxy workload characteristics,including document size distribution, documentpopularity profile, and temporal locality properties. Third,the GUI provides a front-end to a simple Web proxy cachesimulation program, which can be used in studies of Webproxy cache performance and cache filter effects.