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Client/server (C/S) systems are composed of client processes that submit requests to one or more server processes. Servers passively await for client requests and may enlist other servers in order to reply to a request originating from a client. These processes, clients and servers, are usually organized in a multi-tiered software architecture. Usually, clients and servers execute on different machines connected by networks. C/S systems exhibit a large variety of possibilities in terms of architecture design, capacity configuration, and scalability of applications. It is then essential to understand the tradeoffs brought by these possibilities. Performance modeling is an efficient technique to understand the behavior of client/server systems in order to choose characteristics that lead to a cost-effective client/server design
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Menascé, D.A., Almeida, V.A.F. (2000). Performance of Client/Server Systems. In: Haring, G., Lindemann, C., Reiser, M. (eds) Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1769. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46506-5_8
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