A Model of Web Server Performance - Paper about a mathematical model for web server response time. Investigates the effectiveness of adding extra servers to deal with bottlenecks. louvx.biap.com/white-papers/performance/overview.html
Performance Analysis in High-Speed Wide Area ATM Networks - An approach to the analysis of the performance of distributed application in high-speed wide-area networks by B. Tierney, W. Johnston, G. Hoo and J. Lee. www-didc.lbl.gov/DPSS/papers/ISS.net.measurement-tool.pdf
Queueing network models - A tutorial by Peter Denning. cne.gmu.edu/pjd/cs471/RES/QNnotes.pdf
Web Performance Monitoring - Project to measure response times of web sites from various points around the world. Software for download and online statistics. www.webperf.org