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 |
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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 | |
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 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings ITCC 2003, International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications |
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Conference
Conference | International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications, ITCC 2003 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Las Vegas |
Period | 4/28/03 → 4/30/03 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2003 IEEE.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Information Systems
- Media Technology
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Software