University of Houston
Department of Computer Science

In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science

Buu Phan
will defend his thesis


A Study of Fetch on Demand Algorithm for Session Management


Abstract

Session management in clusters is a serious problem faced by most enterprises that provide interactive Web applications. Existing session persistence techniques, such as centralized database persistence, known as Microsoft SQL server or memory-to-memory replication, known as Broadcasting algorithm, suffer from severe limitations. Centralized database persistence may suffer from Single Point of Failure while the Broadcasting algorithm may suffer scalability problem since the replication of session objects adds significant overhead. The Fetch on Demand algorithm is introduced as a software solution that overcomes the above-mentioned challenges associated with session management. The study focuses on implementation of the Fetch on Demand algorithm, analyzing the performance and comparison to existing designs.



Date: Monday, November 29, 2004
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: 550-PGH

Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam