Performance evaluation of service differentiating Internet servers

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1368-1375

  Chen, Xiangping ^a   Mohapatra, Prasant ^b  

^a GNSS Technology for Rail Transportation   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Admission control; Performance study; Quality of Service; Scheduling; Service differentiating Internet servers; Task assignment

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); QUALITY OF SERVICE; RELIABILITY; SERVERS;

SERVICE DIFFERENTIATING WEB SERVERS (SDIS);

INTERNET;

EID: 0036857030     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2002.1047760     Document Type: Article

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