A tiered system for serving differentiated content

World Wide Web

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 331-352

  Chen, Huamin ^a   Iyengar, Arun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Back end server; Load balancing; Service differentiation; Tiered system; Web

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; HTTP; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; QUERY LANGUAGES; SERVERS;

BACK-END SERVERS; FRONT-END SERVERS; LOAD BALANCING; SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION; TIERED SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 3543121322     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025609904398     Document Type: Article

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