Internet web servers: Workload characterization and performance implications

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 631-645

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caching; Performance evaluation; Workload characterization; World wide web

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INTERNET; WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW);

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 0031250567     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.649565     Document Type: Article

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