Scalable load balancing on distributed web servers using mobile agents

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 996-1005

  Cao, Jiannong ^a   Sun, Yudong ^a   Wang, Xianbin ^a   Das, Sajal K ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed web servers; Load balancing; Mobile agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242511139     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0743-7315(03)00099-6     Document Type: Article

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