Performance evaluation of Hyper Text Transfer Protocols

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 188-197

  Barford, Paul ^a   Crovella, Mark ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DOCUMENT TRANSFER LATENCY;

HTTP;

EID: 0032649777     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/301464.301560     Document Type: Article

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