Combining queueing networks and web usage mining techniques for web performance analysis

  • Authors:
  • Giuliano Casale

  • Affiliations:
  • Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The growing interest in Web applications that satisfy end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) requirements is leading many organizations to build and analyze performance behavior models. In this direction, Web usage mining techniques may help in the automatic construction of user profiles from Web access logs. However, their use has been mainly limited to customer relationship management (CRM) issues and to market analyses. The aim of this paper is to explain how Web usage mining can be combined with queueing networks for effective Web capacity planning. After introducing a new general relative cosine similarity measure, we define a performance-oriented similarity for Web usage data. A methodology to devise the input parameters of a queueing network from the resulting clusters is also presented. Finally, the proposed approach is illustrated on a simple case study.