Scalable Web server cluster design with workload-aware request distribution strategy WARD

Proceedings - 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems, WECWIS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 212-221

  Cherkasova, L ^a   Karlsson, M ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ROUTERS; WEBSITES;

ACCESS PATTERNS; CACHE AFFINITY; CLUSTER NODES; CLUSTER PARAMETERS; LINEAR SPEED-UP; PARTITIONING STRATEGIES; REQUEST DISTRIBUTIONS; WEB SERVER CLUSTER;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84963604208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WECWIS.2001.933926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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