Performance issues for wireless web servers

Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks, ICWN'04

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 59-65

  Bai, Guangwei ^a   Oladosu, Kehinde ^a   Williamson, Carey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ad hoc networks; IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN; Network traffic measurements; Web performance

Indexed keywords

HTTP; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; SERVERS; STANDARDS; THROUGHPUT;

AD HOC NETWORKS; IEEE 802.11B WIRELESS LAN; NETWORK TRAFFIC MEASUREMENTS; WEB PERFORMANCE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 12744254722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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