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Internet connection for Web access: an example for performance modeling and simulation

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This paper describes a simplified model of a bottleneck in user access to the World-Wide Web. It has been used to illustrate performance modeling, queueing analysis and simulation in courses on simulation and computer networking.

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            cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
            ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 28, Issue 2
            June 1996
            65 pages
            ISSN:0097-8418
            DOI:10.1145/228296
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