Analysing the latency of World Wide Web applications

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1301-1322

  Ruddle, Alan ^a   Allison, Colin ^a   Nicoll, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congestion; Latency; Web

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

WEB APPLICATIONS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0242575943     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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