Impact of social networking services on the performance and scalability of web server infrastructures

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Networking Computing and Applications, NCA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 160-167

  Canali, Claudia ^a   Garcia, Jose Daniel ^b   Lancellotti, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING; USER INTERACTIONS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; SCALABILITY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

EID: 51749087258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NCA.2008.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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