Empirical study of session-based workload and reliability for Web servers

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 403-414

  Goševa Popstojanova, Katerina ^a   Mazimdar, Sunil ^a   Singh, Ajay Deep ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNLOADING; WEB QUALITY; WEB SERVERS; WORLOAD;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); WORLD WIDE WEB;

SERVERS;

EID: 16244377765     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2004.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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