Dynamic Load Balancing on Web-Server Systems

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Valeria Cardellini, Michele Colajanni, Philip S. Yu

Published: 1999, Last Modified: 15 Jan 2026IEEE Internet Comput. 1999EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
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.