Analysis and modeling of World Wide Web traffic for capacity dimensioning of Internet access lines

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 249-271

  Nabe, Masahiko ^a   Murata, Masayuki ^a   Miyahara, Hideo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Document caching; Performance modeling; Statistical analysis; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUEUEING THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

DOCUMENT CACHING; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARETO DISTRIBUTION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0032301962     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-5316(98)00040-6     Document Type: Article

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