A case study of Web server benchmarking using parallel WAN emulation

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 49, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 111-127

  Williamson, Carey ^a   Simmonds, Rob ^a   Arlitt, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Network emulation; TCP IP; WAN emulation; Web performance

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BENCHMARKING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INTERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; SERVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP); NETWORK EMULATION; TCP/IP; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP); WAN EMULATION; WEB PERFORMANCE;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 1642317923     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-5316(02)00107-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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