Implementing Distributed Server Groups for the World Wide Web.

Abstract

The World Wide Web (WWW) has recently become a very popular facility for the dissemination of information. As a result of this popularity, it is experiencing rapidly increasing traffic load. Single machine servers cannot keep pace with the ever greater load being placed upon them. To alleviate this problem, we have implemented a distributed Web server group. The server group can effectively balance request load amongst its members (within about 10% of optimal), and client response time is no worse than in the single server case. Client response time was not improved because the measured client traffic consumed all available network throughput. The distributed operation of the server groups is completely transparent to standard Web clients. (AN)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 25, 1995
Accession Number
ADA292221

Entities

People

  • Michael Garland
  • Robert Monroe
  • Sebastian Grassia
  • Siddhartha Puri

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Bandwidth
  • Computations
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Distributed Computing
  • Dynamic Loads
  • Hypertext
  • Information Systems
  • Models
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Throughput
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Mathematics or Statistics