Here is the Guest Editor's Introduction.
Here are the collection of papers from WISP98 to appear in PER.
- "Web proxy caching: the devil is in the details" by Ramon Caceres, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldman, Gideon Glass and Michael Robinovic
- "Predicting the QoS of an Electronic Commerce Server: Those Mean Percentiles" by Diwakar Krishnamurthy and Jerome Rolia
- "Better operating system features for faster network servers" by Gaurav Banga, Peter Druschel and Jeffrey C. Mogul
- "httperf -- A tool for measuring web server performance" by David Mosberger and Tai Jin
- "Internet service performance failure detection"
by Amy Ward, Peter Glynn and Kathy Richardson
- "Selection algorithms for replicated web servers"
by Mehmet Sayal, Peter Scheuermann and Pradek Vingralek