ProWGen: A synthetic workload generation tool for simulation evaluation of web proxy caches

Computer Networks

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 779-794

  Busari, Mudashiru ^a   Williamson, Carey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Network simulation; Web performance; Web proxy caching; Workload modeling

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); PARETO PRINCIPLE; SERVERS;

WEB PROXY CACHES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0037156245     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(01)00285-7     Document Type: Article

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