A performance study of robust load sharing strategies for distributed heterogeneous Web server systems

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 398-414

  Colajanni, Michele ^a,b   Yu, Philip S ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Domain name system; Global scheduling algorithms; Load balancing; Performance analysis; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITATIVE DOMAIN NAME SERVER (ADNS); WEB SERVER SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WEBSITES;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036509715     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.991724     Document Type: Article

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