Performance characteristics of mirror servers on the internet

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 304-312

  Myers, Andy ^a   Dinda, Peter ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRROR SERVERS; NEAR-OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PRODUCTION WEB; SERVER PERFORMANCE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSFER TIME;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

MIRRORS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MIRROR SERVERS; WEB SITES;

EID: 0032676961     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.1999.749296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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