Server capacity planning for Web traffic workload

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 731-747

  Kant, Krishna ^a,b   Won, Youjip ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; DATA RECORDING; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

SERVER CAPACITY PLANNING; SYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSORS (SMP);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0033321124     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.806933     Document Type: Article

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