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It is an important and urgent Operations Research (OR) issue to evaluate the delay in a web-server system handling internet commerce real-time services. Usually, proxy servers in differently-located sites enable us to shorten the web-server access delay in order to guarantee the quality of real-time application services. However, there exists almost no literature on the queueing analyses for the web-server system with proxy servers. The goal of this paper is to provide a queueing analysis for the web-server system. We derive the statistics of the individual output processes from the proxy servers. Regarding the unfinished workload in the web-server system with input as a diffusion process, we derive a mean-delay explicit formula.
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Takahashi, Y., Shikata, Y., Frey, A. (2011). Diffusion Approximation for a Web-Server System with Proxy Servers. In: Hu, B., Morasch, K., Pickl, S., Siegle, M. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2010. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20009-0_26
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