Generating representative web workloads for network and server performance evaluation

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 151-160

  Barford, Paul ^a   Crovella, Mark ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PLANNING;

WEB WORKLOADS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0032090155     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/277858.277897     Document Type: Article

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