Workload characterization of the 1998 world cup web site

HP Laboratories Technical Report

Volumn , Issue 35 R.1, 1999, Pages

  Arlitt, Martin ^a   Jin, Tai ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching; Performance; Servers; Workload characterization; World Cup; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

CACHING; MEDIA EVENTS; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION; WORLD CUP;

ALGORITHMS; CACHE MEMORY; CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GAME THEORY; HTML; HTTP; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBABILITY; SERVERS; TELEVISION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84862450750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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