Web server workload characterization: The search for invariants

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 126-137

  Arlitt, Martin F ^a   Williamson, Carey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHING; DATA SETS; INTERNET WEB SERVERS; INVARIANTS; LATENCY; NETWORK TRAFFIC; WORKLOADS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INVARIANCE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 0030143517     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/233008.233034     Document Type: Article

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