In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of

Master of Science

will defend her thesis

With corporate Web sites getting millions of hits per day, performance of Web servers is becoming a critical issue. Web servers that do not respond quickly under heavy loads can slow down network connections, deny service for visitors and cause network failures. Web server performance depends upon several factors: hardware platform, operating system, server software and workload. There are various well-known methodologies for performance evaluation of Web server like Webstone.

In this thesis, we design and develop a Web Server Performance and Monitoring System (WSPMS), a web-based tool for measuring performance of any web server on the Internet. WSPMS tool is a self-contained, platform independent application. It makes use of multiple Java threads to monitor web server. Once the connection is made, the threads send requests to web server and collect data such as connection time, response time, and throughput. WSPMS also uses these data to measure the performance of web servers. WSPMS can be used to measure the performance of web servers on the Internet. It can also be used to measure the performance in a local area network to get the maximum load of the server.

We can use this tool to help us configure a web server in both hardware and software such as memory, CPU speed, and network bandwidth.

Date: Monday, February 26, 2001
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: 550-PGH

Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang