Software Bottlenecking in Client-Server Systems and Rendezvous Networks

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 776-782

  Neilson, J E ^a   Woodside, C M ^a   Petriu, D C ^a   Majumdar, S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

client server computing; critical sections; distributed software engineering; layered queueing networks; Performance bottlenecks; software servers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PERFORMANCE; TRANSPUTERS; UNIX;

CLIENT SERVER SYSTEMS; CRITICAL SECTIONS; LAYERED QUEUEING NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; RENDEZVOUS NETWORKS; SOFTWARE BOTTLENECKING; SOFTWARE SERVERS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0029373016     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.464543     Document Type: Article

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