Adaptive load sharing for clustered digital library servers

International Journal on Digital Libraries

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 225-235

  Zhu, Huican ^a   Yang, Tao ^a   Zheng, Qi ^a   Watson, David ^a   Ibarra, Oscar H ^a   Smith, Terence ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Load balancing; Non uniform server clustering; Remote CGI; Scalable digital library services; Scheduling optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005930166     PISSN: 14325012     EISSN: 14321300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00021467     Document Type: Article

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