Modelling and Design of Admission Control Mechanisms for Web Servers using Non-linear Control Theory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5244, Issue , 2003, Pages 53-64

  Andersson, Mikael ^a   Kihl, Maria ^a   Robertsson, Anders ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Admission control; Apache; Control theory; Overload control; Queueing theory; Web servers

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUEUEING THEORY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SERVERS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ADMISSION CONTROL; OVERLOAD CONTROL; WEB SERVERS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 1642432987     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.509281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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