FBOS: FREQUENCY BASED OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY FOR THREAD POOL SYSTEM

Authors

  • F. Bahadur Department of Information Technology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
  • M. Naeem Department of Information Technology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
  • M. Javed Department of Information Technology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
  • A. Wahab Department of Mathematics, Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan

Abstract

Competitive multithreading models for constructing server side applications are thread-per-request and thread pool. Thread pool architecture is more efficient because of its pre-spawning and recycling a pool of threads. But tuning the thread pool system at the optimal level and dynamically changing its size is still a challenging task. This paper presents a Thread Pool System which is equipped with a dynamic optimization strategy named Frequency Based Optimization Strategy (FBOS) that reacts on the basis of client’s request frequencies. In this paper we also presented a comparison between the two best pool techniques and FBOS strategy with the help of a Request Simulator and the results of simulation have proved that FBOS is more responsive and efficient than other strategies.

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15-01-2014

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F. Bahadur, M. Naeem, M. Javed, and A. Wahab, “FBOS: FREQUENCY BASED OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY FOR THREAD POOL SYSTEM”, The Nucleus, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 93–107, Jan. 2014.

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