The sharing of caches among Web proxies is an important technique to reduce Web traffic
and alleviate network bottlenecks. Nevertheless it is not widely deployed due to the …

Web caches can not only reduce network traffic and downloading latency, but can also affect
the distribution of web traffic over the network through cost-aware caching. This paper …

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 …

In this paper, we analyze access traces to a Web proxy, looking at statistical parameters to
be used in the design of a replacement policy for documents held in the cache. In the first …

Web caching aims at reducing network traffic, server load and user-perceived retrieval
delays by replicating popular content on proxy caches that are strategically placed within the …

The relative importance of long-term popularity and short-term temporal correlation of
references for Web cache replacement policies has not been studied thoroughly. This is …

In a large-scale information system such as a digital library or the Web, a set of distributed
caches can improve their effectiveness by coordinating their data placement decisions …

Web tra c is now one of the major components of Internet tra c, which corresponds to the
explosive growth that this medium is experiencing. One of the main directions of research in …

This paper presents a detailed workload characterization study of a World-Wide Web proxy.
Measurements from a proxy within an Internet Service Provider (ISP) environment were …

To date there have been a number of efforts that attempt to characterize various aspects of
the World Wide Web. This paper presents a summary of these efforts, highlighting …