Workload characterization is a well-established discipline that plays a key role in many
performance engineering studies. The large-scale social behavior inherent in the …

The performance of any type of system cannot be determined without knowing the workload,
that is, the requests being processed. Workload characterization consists of a description of …

The advent of cloud computing promises highly available, efficient, and flexible computing
services for applications such as web search, email, voice over IP, and web search alerts …

Reliable performance evaluations require the use of representative workloads. This is no
easy task since modern computer systems and their workloads are complex, with many …

The specification of workloads is required in order to evaluate performance characteristics of
application systems using load testing and model-based performance prediction. Defining …

Workload modeling enables performance analysis and simulation of cloud resource
management policies, which allows cloud providers to improve their systems' Quality of …

Run-time management of modern Web-based services requires the integration of several
algorithms and mechanisms for job dispatching, load sharing, admission control, overload …

Workload flows in enterprise systems that use the multi-tier paradigm are often characterized
as bursty, ie, exhibit a form of temporal dependence. Burstiness often results in dramatic …

The phenomenal growth in popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW, or the Web) has made
WWW traffic the largest contributor to packet and byte traffic on the NSFNET backbone. This …

The main issue we address in this paper is the workload analysis of today's enterprise
media servers. This analysis aims to establish a set of properties specific for enterprise …