Market-based architecture for management of geographically dispersed, replicated Web servers

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 191-204

  Karaul, Mehmet ^a   Korilis, Yannis A ^a   Orda, Ariel ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COSTS; GAME THEORY; HTTP; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SALES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DISTRIBUTED WEB SITES; GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED WEB SERVERS; LOAD BALANCING; PRICING; REPLICATED WEB SERVERS; SCALABILITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0033879320     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(99)00068-8     Document Type: Article

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