Effectiveness of early replies in client-server systems

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 36-37, Issue , 1999, Pages 165-183

  Franks, Greg ^a   Woodside, Murray ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EXTENDED QUEUEING NETWORKS; LAYERED QUEUEING NETWORKS; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; TWO PHASE SERVICE;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033169494     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-5316(99)00034-6     Document Type: Article

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