Efficient TCP connection failover in web server clusters

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1219-1228

  Zhang, Ronghua ^a   Abdelzaher, Tarek F ^a   Stankovic, John A ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYER; BACKUP SERVERS; FAILURE DETECTION; ONLINE SERVICES;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HTTP; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SERVERS; THROUGHPUT;

WEBSITES;

EID: 8344272006     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1357008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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