Analysis of enterprise media server workloads: Access patterns, locality, content evolution, and rates of change

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 781-794

  Cherkasova, Ludmila ^a   Gupta, Minaxi ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACCESS PATTERNS; CONTENT EVOLUTION; ENTERPRISE MEDIA SERVERS; WEB SERVER; WORKLOAD ANALYSIS;

SERVERS;

EID: 7244260720     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2004.836125     Document Type: Article

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