EquiLoad: A load balancing policy for clustered web servers

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 46, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 101-124

  Ciardo, Gianfranco ^a   Riska, Alma ^a   Smirni, Evgenia ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Processing time; Queue policy; Web server; Workload allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTERED WEB SERVERS;

SERVERS;

EID: 0035480147     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-5316(01)00049-9     Document Type: Article

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