Evaluation and Modeling of Web Services Performance

Abstract

While Web services have been widely accepted as a platform-independent services-oriented technology, its performance remains a concern due to the verbosity and inefficiency inherent from using text-based XML. This paper presents a study of Web services performance by evaluating the current implementations of Web services and comparing them with a number of alternative technologies. This study gives a picture of the current Web services performance behaviors and develops a simple performance model that can be used to estimate Web services latencies