Overload control in QoS-aware web servers

Computer Networks

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 119-133

  Chen, Huamin ^a   Mohapatra, Prasant ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Dynamic weighted fair sharing; Overload control; Quality of service; Scheduling algorithm; Service differentiation; Session based control; Web server

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

OVERLOAD CONTROL;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0037447707     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00178-6     Document Type: Article

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