Scalable Contents-based Web Cluster Server with Self-Processing Web Switch

摘要

This paper describes the motivation, design and performance of web cluster server with self-processing web switch for enhanced packet throughput. The goal of the proposed web cluster server is to provide a framework for building highly scalable, fault-tolerant services using a large cluster of commodity servers. It employs web switches processing packets by themselves while operating at contents-based layer-7 of the OSI protocol stack. Extensive computer simulation reveals that the proposed approach improves packet throughput and reply rate about 20% compared to earlier designs.