A performance comparison of communication APIs on Solaris and Windows operating systems

S. Zeadally; Jia Lu

doi:10.1109/ITCC.2003.1197551

A performance comparison of communication APIs on Solaris and Windows operating systems

S. Zeadally, Jia Lu

School of Information Science

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Abstract

Communication application programming interfaces (API) constitute an important component of many network-based applications. They play a central role in the end-to-end performance ultimately delivered by networked applications. Most network architectures exploit the underlying networking API in their designs. In this paper, we conduct an empirical performance evaluation on the PC platform of some of the most popular networking API which include: Winsock/BSD, Java, and RMI. To explore the impact of the underlying operating system and Java virtual machine (JVM) architecture, we conducted performance tests on two operating systems namely, Windows NT 4.0 and Solaris 8. We found that on both operating system platforms, Winsock and BSD sockets yield about 1.8 times better throughput than Java sockets, and Java sockets in turn yield twice the throughput of that obtained using remote method invocation (RMI). We also obtained about 1.3 times higher latency overheads with Java compared to either Winsock or BSD as well as with RMI when compared to Java sockets on both Windows NT and Solaris operating systems. We hope that our results will be useful to application designers and developers in better optimizing end-to-end application performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology
Subtitle of host publication	Computers and Communications
Editors	Pradip K. Srimani, Emma Regentova, Ray Hashemi, Elaine Lawrence, Mario Cannataro, Amanda Spink, Wolf Bein
Pages	336-340
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	0769519164, 9780769519166
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ITCC.2003.1197551
State	Published - 2003
Event	International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications, ITCC 2003 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: Apr 28 2003 → Apr 30 2003

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Name	Proceedings ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications

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Conference	International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications, ITCC 2003
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	4/28/03 → 4/30/03

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Computer Science Applications
Information Systems
Media Technology
Computer Networks and Communications
Software

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Zeadally, S., & Lu, J. (2003). A performance comparison of communication APIs on Solaris and Windows operating systems. In P. K. Srimani, E. Regentova, R. Hashemi, E. Lawrence, M. Cannataro, A. Spink, & W. Bein (Eds.), Proceedings - ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications (pp. 336-340). Article 1197551 (Proceedings ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications). https://doi.org/10.1109/ITCC.2003.1197551

Zeadally, S. ; Lu, Jia. / A performance comparison of communication APIs on Solaris and Windows operating systems. Proceedings - ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications. editor / Pradip K. Srimani ; Emma Regentova ; Ray Hashemi ; Elaine Lawrence ; Mario Cannataro ; Amanda Spink ; Wolf Bein. 2003. pp. 336-340 (Proceedings ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications).

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Zeadally, S & Lu, J 2003, A performance comparison of communication APIs on Solaris and Windows operating systems. in PK Srimani, E Regentova, R Hashemi, E Lawrence, M Cannataro, A Spink & W Bein (eds), Proceedings - ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications., 1197551, Proceedings ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications, pp. 336-340, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications, ITCC 2003, Las Vegas, United States, 4/28/03. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITCC.2003.1197551

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Proceedings - ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications. ed. / Pradip K. Srimani; Emma Regentova; Ray Hashemi; Elaine Lawrence; Mario Cannataro; Amanda Spink; Wolf Bein. 2003. p. 336-340 1197551 (Proceedings ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications).

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Zeadally S, Lu J. A performance comparison of communication APIs on Solaris and Windows operating systems. In Srimani PK, Regentova E, Hashemi R, Lawrence E, Cannataro M, Spink A, Bein W, editors, Proceedings - ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications. 2003. p. 336-340. 1197551. (Proceedings ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications). doi: 10.1109/ITCC.2003.1197551

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