A comparison of load balancing techniques for scalable Web servers.

Scalable Web servers can be built using a network of workstations where server capacity can be extended by adding new workstations as the workload increases. The topic of our article is a comparison of different method to do load-balancing of HTTP traffic for scalable Web servers. We present a class...

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Publicado en:	IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 14, 4 (2000).
Autor principal:	Bryhni, H.
Formato:	Artículo
Lenguaje:	English
Materias:	HTTP traffic. IP address. ISP. Internet Service Provider. Norway. Canonical name. Instruction-level analysis. Load balancing techniques. Load-balancing. Mapping redirection. Network request redirection. Performance comparison. Processing overhead. Scalable Web servers. Server capacity. Simulation model. Spatial locality. Temporal locality. Trace driven simulation. Workstations network.