"Protocol-level" profiling of client-server interaction

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From: Aloke Gupta
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:08

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   In my graduate work I have proposed an approach called "Protocol-level
   Profiling" (PLP) for characterizing client-server interaction. The basic
   idea behind PLP is to checkpoint the interaction between the client and the
   server and then estimate the computation invoked on the server by carefully
   assigning a cost to each of the messages on the basis of its attributes.

   I have written a profiler, Xprof, which is a protocol-level profiler
   for X Window applications. It is available by anonymous ftp from
   roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu (128.174.197.134) under /pub/Xprof.

   Question:
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   I am curious to know if such a strategy has been used to characterize any
   other client-server system.  Any pointers?

   I will summarize and post all such responses.

   Thank you in advance

   Aloke Gupta
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Aloke Gupta                                         E-mail: gupta@crhc.uiuc.edu
Coordinated Science Laboratory                           or a-gupta@uiuc.edu
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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