Efficient state estimators for load control policies in scalable Web server clusters

Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 449-455

  Cardellini, V ^a   Colajanni, M ^a   Yu, Philip S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; WEB SERVICES;

CACHING MECHANISM; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DOMAIN NAME SERVERS; NON-UNIFORMITIES; STATE ESTIMATORS; STATE INFORMATION; WEB SERVER CLUSTER;

SERVERS;

EID: 85046014282     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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