Research on Performance Modeling of Transactional Cloud Applications

As cloud computing has gained a lot of attention recently, performance modeling of cloud applications would be very important for various management issues, such as capacity planning and resource provisioning for the cloud providers. This paper conducts research on several performance modeling approaches of transactional cloud applications. Steady-state models are established for both single-tier and multi-tier applications, and then enhanced models are studied on the basis of basic models. Simulation experiments are designed and performed to validate the models we proposed, which illustrates that the measured results fit the analytic models very well.