Efficient policies for carrying web traffic over flow-switched networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 673-685

  Feldmann, Anja ^a   Rexford, Jennifer ^a   Cáceres, Ramón ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

HTTP protocol; Internet traffic characterization; IP flows; Routing; Signaling; Switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000495867     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.748081     Document Type: Article

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