Performance Analysis of the Reactor Pattern in Network Services

The growing reliance on services provided by software applications places a high premium on the reliable and efficient operation of these applications. A number of these applications follow the event-driven software architecture style since this style fosters evolvability by separating event handling from event demultiplexing and dispatching functionality. The event demultiplexing capability, which appears repeatedly across a class of event-driven applications, can be codified into a reusable pattern, such as the Reactor pattern. In order to enable performance analysis of event-driven applications at design time, a model is needed that represents the event demultiplexing and handling functionality that lies at the heart of these applications. In this paper, we present a model of the Reactor pattern based on the well-established Stochastic Reward Net (SRN) modeling paradigm. We discuss how the model can be used to obtain several performance measures such as the throughput, loss proba...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Swapna S. Gokhale, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Jeffrey G. Gray, Paul J. Vandal, U. Praphamontripong
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Event Demultiplexing, Event-driven Applications, IPPS 2006, Reactor Pattern