Quantifying the performability of cluster-based services

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 456-467

  Nagaraja, Kiran ^a   Gama, Gustavo ^a,c   Bianchini, Ricardo ^a   Martin, Richard P ^a   Meira Jr , Wagner ^b   Nguyen, Thu D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Vetta Technologies   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Availability; Fault tolerance; Internet services; Performance

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

INTERNET SERVICES; PERFORMABILITY;

INTERNET;

EID: 20344368823     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2005.61     Document Type: Article

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