Web server performance measurement and modeling techniques

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-26

  Dilley, John ^a   Friedrich, Rich ^a   Jin, Tai ^a   Rolia, Jerome ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Performance model; Workload characterization; World wide web

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUEUEING THEORY; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

CAPACITY PLANNING MODELS; HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL (HTTP); INTERNET; INTRANET; LAYERED QUEUING MODELS (LQM); WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW);

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032094908     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-5316(98)00008-x     Document Type: Article

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