A unifying co-operative web caching architecture
Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
International Journal of Communication Systems
Publication Date
7-1-2002
Abstract
Network caching of objects has become a standard way of reducing network traffic and latency in the web. However, web caches exhibit poor performance with a hit rate of about 30%. A solution to improve this hit rate is to have a group of proxies form co-operation where objects can be cached for later retrieval. A co-operative cache system includes protocols for hierarchical and transversal caching. The drawback of such a system lies in the resulting network load due to the number of messages that need to be exchanged to locate an object. This paper proposes a new co-operative web caching architecture, which unifies previous methods of web caching. Performance results shows that the architecture achieve up to 70% co-operative hit rate and accesses the cached object in at most two hops. Moreover, the architecture is scalable with low traffic and database overhead.
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ISSN
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
15
Issue
6
First Page
513
Last Page
530
Disciplines
Business
Keywords
Association, Cache directory, Co-operative web caching, Distributed processing, Proxy server, Web cache
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Recommended Citation
Abonamah, Abdullah; Al-Rawi, Akram; and Minhaz, Mohammad, "A unifying co-operative web caching architecture" (2002). All Works. 306.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/306
Indexed in Scopus
yes
Open Access
no