Design and evaluation of load control in web server systems

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1980-1985

  Robertsson, Anders ^a   Wittenmark, Björn ^a   Kihl, Maria ^a   Andersson, Mikael ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PRESS LOAD CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WORLD WIDE WEB;

LINEAR MODELS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; STORED PROGRAM CONTROL (SPC);

SERVERS;

EID: 8744270012     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/acc.2004.1383750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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