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Enabling content-based load distribution for scalable services

Hunt et al., 1997

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Hunt G
Nahum E
Tracey J
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We argue that using information content of individual client requests to distribute load across a cluster of workstations or PCs has many attractive properties, and describe how current Internet standards make content-based load distribution difficult. We discuss several …
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