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Outline

In chapter 2, we first present a brief survey of existing approaches for request distribution mechanisms. In chapter 3, design goals for system, system model taken, approach used and algorithms for each server side component of proposed architecture are discussed.

To evaluate the performance of proposed architecture and compare it with other existing proposals, a flexible test bed was designed to emulate real Internet like scenario in which various architectures for Distributed Web Server System can be emulated with minimal efforts. In chapter 4, design goals, overview and different components of this test bed are described. In chapter 5, different algorithms implemented on the test bed and measured performance are briefly discussed and finally the performance results obtained for various schemes are compared. In chapter 6, we finally present conclusion and future extensions. In appendix, we give short description of softwares used by us.



Puneet Agarwal 2001-05-12