Performance characteristics of the world wide web

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

Volumn 1769, Issue , 2000, Pages 219-232

  Crovella, Mark E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84937434450     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46506-5_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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