Workload propagation - Overload in bursty servers

QEST 2005 - Proceedings Second International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 179-188

  Zhang, Qi ^a   Riska, Alma ^b   Riedel, Erik ^b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi tiered systems; Overload conditions; TPC W; Workload characterization

Indexed keywords

MULTI-TIERED SYSTEMS; OVERLOAD CONDITIONS; TPC-W; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); USER INTERFACES;

SERVERS;

EID: 33847276269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QEST.2005.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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