Abstract. The single-system approach is no longer sufficient to handle the load on popular Internet servers, especially for those offering extensive multimedia content. Such servic...
The efficient delivery of web content has been identified as a key issue of research for some time. Forward (or reverse) proxies, which are positioned along the request route from...
The paper describes how the Web can be used as a support for intensive querying and display of large moving objects databases. We present first an architecture for a system which ...
Unexpected surges in Web request traffic can exercise server-side resources (e.g., access bandwidth, processing, storage etc.) in undesirable ways. Administrators today do not hav...
As more business applications have become web enabled, the web server architecture has evolved to provide performance isolation, service differentiation, and QoS guarantees. Vario...