Size-based scheduling to improve web performance

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 207-233

  Harchol Balter, Mor ^a,b   Schroeder, Bianca ^a,b   Bansal, Nikhil ^a,b   Agrawal, Mukesh ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation law; Networking; Scheduling; SJF; SRPT; System performance and design; Web servers

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION LAW; NETWORKING; SJF; SRPT; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN; WEB SERVERS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONTROLLABILITY; HTTP; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SERVERS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 2342603698     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 07342071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/762483.762486     Document Type: Article

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