Simulation of Environment of Geographically Distributed Server Nodes for Testing of Load Balancing Algorithms

Shivaprasad Balaji, Sneha M

Abstract: In the present era, web applications are being deployed on more than one server node for ensuring high availability. The server nodes are geographically distributed and are usually connected to a load balancer. Setting up of this environment is expensive since it involves creating server nodes at actual geographic locations with its own computing resources. In this paper, we explore the method to simulate this environment so as to reduce the cost for testing load balancing algorithms.

Keywords: Web traffic modeling, traffic distribution, response time delaying