Load balancing on stateful clustered Web servers

Proceedings - Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 207-215

  Teodoro, G ^a   Tavares, T ^a   Coutinho, B ^a   Meira, W ^a   Guedes, D ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Computer science; Control theory; Delay; Internet; Load management; Scalability; Throughput; Web server; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SCALABILITY; THROUGHPUT; WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTERED SERVER; CLUSTERED WEB SERVERS; COMMON STRATEGY; DELAY; LOAD BALANCING STRATEGY; TRANSACTION DATA; WEB SERVERS; WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS;

SERVERS;

EID: 63149157229     PISSN: 15506533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CAHPC.2003.1250340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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