Using Long-Term Prediction for Web Service Network Traffic Loads

Businesses have used forecasting to address inventory levels and staffing needs. By understanding long-term utilization of resources, businesses have been able to optimize the costs associated with those resources. To date, computing has used forecasting to address short-term needs for services like scheduling and load balancing. This paper presents a portion of a larger study that was conducted to determine if long-term prediction of a server's resources is possible. The result of that larger study indicates that server resources exhibit long-term predictability, opening the possibility for future research to improve business use of servers.