Web caching is an important technique to scale the Internet. One important performance
factor of Web caches is the replacement strategy. Due to specific characteristics of the World …

Modern web services use in-memory caching extensively to increase throughput and reduce
latency. There have been several workload analyses of production systems that have fueled …

Key-value stores are a vital component in many scale-out enterprises, including social
networks, online retail, and risk analysis. Accordingly, they are receiving increased attention …

This article presents a detailed workload characterization study of the 1998 World Cup Web
site. Measurements from this site were collected over a three-month period. During this time …

The continued growth of the World-Wide Web and the emergence of new end-user
technologies such as cable modems necessitate the use of proxy caches to reduce latency …

Is it possible to reduce the expected response time of every request at a web server, simply
by changing the order in which we schedule the requests? That is the question we ask in …

Because they incorporate both time-and event-driven dynamics, stochastic hybrid systems
(SHS) have become ubiquitous in a variety of fields, from mathematical finance to biological …

We propose a user model that explains the shape of the distribution of file sizes in local file
systems and in the World Wide Web. We examine evidence from 562 file systems, 38 web …

When choosing an e-commerce site's hardware and software configuration, we need to
know how a specific combination of Web servers, commerce servers, database servers, and …

Recent studies have shown that in the wired broadband world, caching of HTTP objects
results in substantial savings in network resources. What about cellular networks? This …