High-performance benchmarking with Web Polygraph

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-211

  Rousskov, Alex ^a   Wessels, Duane ^a  

^a Measurement Factory Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; HTTP; Intermediaries; Performance; Proxies

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CACHE MEMORY; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HTML; HTTP; PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEB BROWSERS;

EMULATION; INTERMEDIARIES; PROXIES; WEB POLYGRAPH;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 1142281153     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.576     Document Type: Article

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