High-performance Web site design techniques

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 17-26

  Iyengar, Arun ^b   Challenger, Jim ^b   Dias, Daniel ^b   Dantzig, Paul ^a  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; BUFFER STORAGE; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA HANDLING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ANDREW FILE SYSTEM; COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE; DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM; LOAD BALANCING; NETWORK DISPATCHER; OBJECT DEPENDENCE GRAPH; ROUND ROBIN DOMAIN NAME SERVER; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WEB SERVER; WEB SITE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0033871059     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4236.832942     Document Type: Article

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