Efficient support for P-HTTP in cluster-based Web servers

Proceedings of the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Aron, Mohit ^a   Druschel, Peter ^a   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WEB SERVICES;

CLUSTER-BASED WEB SERVER; CONTENT-BASED REQUEST DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENTS OF; PERSISTENT CONNECTION; REQUEST DISTRIBUTIONS; SCALABLE PERFORMANCE; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION; WEIGHTED ROUND ROBINS;

HTTP;

EID: 85084163667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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