Preserving QoS of e-commerce sites through self-tuning: A performance model approach

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 224-234

  Menascé, Daniel A ^a   Barbará, Daniel ^a   Dodge, Ronald ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E business; QoS; QoS control; Queuing networks; TPC W

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HTML; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SERVERS; WEBSITES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SITE; QUEUING MODEL; SELF TUNING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0002263126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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