Intermediary infrastructures for the World Wide Web

Computer Networks

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 421-447

  Dikaiakos, Marios D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Edge services; Intermediary systems; Personalized and mobile services; Proxy servers; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EDGE SERVICES; INTERMEDIARY SYSTEMS; PERSONALIZED AND MOBILE SERVICES; PROXY SERVERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 2642534470     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2004.02.008     Document Type: Article

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