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Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2007)
Discovering Web Workload Characteristics through Cluster Analysis
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 12-July 14
ISBN: 0-7695-2922-4
Fengbin Li, West Virginia University, USA
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University, USA
Arun Ross, West Virginia University, USA
In this paper we present clustering analysis of session-based Web workloads of eight Web servers using the intrasession characteristics (i.e., number of requests per session, session length in time, and bytes transferred per session) as variables. We use K-means algorithm and the Mahalanobis distance, and analyze the heavy-tailed behavior of intra-session characteristics and their correlations for each cluster. Our results show that clustering provides an efficient way to classify tens or hundreds thousands of sessions into several coherent classes that efficiently describe Web workloads. These classes reveal phenomena that cannot be observed when studying the workload as a whole.
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Fengbin Li, Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Arun Ross, "Discovering Web Workload Characteristics through Cluster Analysis," nca, pp.61-68, Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2007), 2007
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