A framework of using cooperating mobile agents to achieve load sharing in distributed Web server groups

Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 118-125

  Cao, Jiannong ^a   Wang, Xianbing ^a,b   Das, S K ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC LOADS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MESSAGE PASSING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED DYNAMICS; DISTRIBUTED WEB SERVER; DYNAMIC LOAD SHARING; LOAD SHARING ALGORITHM; MESSAGE PASSING PARADIGMS; MOBILE AGENT PLATFORM; NETWORK SERVICES; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 84964757080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAPP.2002.1173561     Document Type: Conference Paper

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