%0 Journal Article %A FAN Ying %A HU Jianpeng %A HUANG Juan %A SUN Tianqi %T Bandwidth resource prediction and management of Web applications hosted on cloud %D 2020 %R 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2019050903 %J Journal of Computer Applications %P 181-187 %V 40 %N 1 %X To address the problem of bandwidth resource management in Web applications, a prediction method for bandwidth requirement and Quality of Service (QoS) of Web applications based on network simulation was proposed. A modeling framework and formal specification were presented for Web services, a simplified parallel workload model was adopted, the model parameters were extracted from Web application access logs by means of automated data mining, and the complex network transmission process was simulated by using network simulation tool. As a result, the bandwidth requirement and changes on QoS were able to be predicted under different workload intensities. A classic benchmark system named TPC-W was used to evaluate the accuracy of prediction results. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that compared with traditional linear regression prediction, network simulation can stably simulate real system, the predicted average relative error for total request number and total byte number is 4.6% and 3.3% respectively. Finally, with different bandwidth scaling schemes simulated and evaluated based on the TPC-W benchmark system, the results can provide decision support for resource management of Web applications. %U http://www.joca.cn/EN/10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2019050903