Evaluating the performance of middleware load balancing strategies

Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOC

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 135-146

  Balasubramanian, Jaiganesh ^a   Schmidt, Douglas C ^a   Dowdy, Lawrence ^a   Othman, Ossama ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive load balancing strategies; Middleware load balancing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LOAD BALANCING STRATEGIES; BENCHMARKING METRICES; LOAD DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES; MIDDLEWARE LOAD BALANCING;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 17744385298     PISSN: 15417719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDOC.2004.1342511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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