Kernel mechanisms for service differentiation in overloaded web servers

Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Voigt, Thiemo ^a   Tewari, Renu ^b   Freimuth, Douglas ^b   Mehra, Ashish ^c  

^a Swedish Institute of Computer Science   (Sweden)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c iScale Networks ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HTTP;

APPLICATION LEVEL; CONNECTION CONTROL; CONTINUOUS SERVICES; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DIFFERENT SERVICES; INCOMING CONNECTIONS; KERNEL MECHANISM; SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 0005341150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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