A priority-based admission control scheme for commercial web servers

International Journal of Parallel Programming

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 776-797

  Nafea, Ibtehal ^a   Younas, Muhammad ^b   Holton, Robert ^c   Awan, Irfan ^c  

^a TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commercial websites; Efficiency; Performance; Web portals; Web servers

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; PORTALS; SALES; WEBSITES;

ADMISSION CONTROL SCHEME; COMMERCIAL WEBSITES; LEVEL OF SERVICE; ON-LINE BANKING; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY SCHEMES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; WEB SERVERS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84902247116     PISSN: 08857458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10766-013-0290-5     Document Type: Article

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