Hierarchical workload characterization for a busy web server

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2324 LNCS, Issue , 2002, Pages 309-328

  Oke, Adeniyi ^a   Bunt, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; WEB SERVICES;

ACCESS LOG; AGGREGATE TRAFFIC; MANAGING RESOURCES; MULTIPLE CLIENTS; WEB SERVERS; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84898067774     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46029-2_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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