An analytic model of Web servers in distributed computing environments

Telecommunication Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 2-4, 2002, Pages 283-299

  Reeser, Paul ^a   Hariharan, Rema ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed; Dynamic; HTTP; Performance; Queueing; Validation; Web

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HTTP; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SERVERS; USER INTERFACES;

END-USER INTERFACES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0036420856     PISSN: 10184864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020902716313     Document Type: Review

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