A new approach to performance modelling of Client/Server distributed data base architectures

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 255-272

  Mirandola, R ^a,c   Hollinger, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CENA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Client server; Distributed data bases; Performance modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLIENT/SERVER DISTRIBUTED DATABASE ARCHITECTURE;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031143525     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-5316(96)00047-8     Document Type: Article

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