Title :
Dynamic load balancing on Web-server systems
Author :
Cardellini, Valeria ; Colajanni, Michele ; Yu, Philip S.
Author_Institution :
Rome Univ., Italy
Abstract :
Popular Web sites cannot rely on a single powerful server nor on independent mirrored-servers to support the ever-increasing request load. Distributed Web server architectures that transparently schedule client requests offer a way to meet dynamic scalability and availability requirements. The authors review the state of the art in load balancing techniques on distributed Web-server systems, and analyze the efficiencies and limitations of the various approaches
Keywords :
Internet; network servers; resource allocation; Web server architectures; Web-server systems; availability; load balancing; scalability; Computer architecture; Internet; Load management; NASA; Network servers; Scalability; Scheduling; Uniform resource locators; Web server; Web sites;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4236.769420
