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Acharya et al.

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Acharya A
Shaikh A
Verma D
Tewari R

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High-volume Web server and cache installations achieve scalability and reliability by using a front-end dispatcher to route incoming client requests among a cluster of server machines. Dispatchers typically operate at layer-4, using transport-layer information (eg, IP …
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