Understanding the management of client perceived response time

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 240-251

  Olshefski, David ^a   Nieh, Jason ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Admission control; Client perceived response time; Qos; Web server performance

Indexed keywords

ADMISSION CONTROL; CLIENT PERCEIVED RESPONSE TIME; REMOTE LATENCY BASED MANAGEMENT (RLM); WEB SERVER PERFORMANCE;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

EID: 33750314616     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: 01635999     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1140103.1140305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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