Content sniffer based load distribution in a web server cluster

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1258-1269

  Hyun, Jongwoong ^a   Jung, Inbum ^b   Lee, Joonwon ^a   Maeng, Seungryoul ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Clusters; Load balancing; Performance evaluation; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HTTP; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTENT SNIFFER BASED LOAD DISTRIBUTION; LOAD BALANCING FRONT-END ROUTERS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIER; WEB SERVER CLUSTER;

SERVERS;

EID: 0142055135     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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