Priority scheduling service for E-commerce web servers

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-82

  Younas, Muhammad ^a   Awan, Irfan ^b   Chao, Kuo Ming ^c   Chung, Jen Yao ^d  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

E commerce requests; Priority scheduling; Web server performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749085482     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-007-0058-9     Document Type: Article

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