Web Caching and Its Applications

Web Caching and Its Applications by S.V. Nagaraj.

The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in the usage of the World Wide Web. The Web has grown so fast that it seems to be becoming an unusable and slow behemoth. Web caching is one way to tame and make this behemoth a friendly and useful giant. The key idea in Web caching is to cache frequently...

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Main Author: Nagaraj, S.V (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
Edition:1st ed. 2004.
Series:The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 772
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Computer communication systems.
Application software.
Database management.
Information storage and retrieval.
Multimedia information systems.
Computer organization.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Architectural Aspects
  • Various Flavors of Web Caching
  • Comparing Cache Deployment Options
  • Caching Architectures
  • Caching Dynamic Data
  • Aspects Requiring Co-Ordination
  • Inter-Cache Communication
  • Routing Requests to Caches
  • Cache Replacement Algorithms
  • Cache Coherency
  • Aspects Related to Traffic
  • Web Traffic Characteristics
  • Forecasting Patterns of Access
  • Complementary Techniques
  • Prefetching
  • Load Balancing
  • Replication
  • Practical Aspects
  • Fault Tolerance in Caching Systems
  • Caching for Libraries, ISPs and Others
  • Building Cache Friendly Web Sites
  • Caching at the Global Level
  • Aspects Related to Performance
  • Measuring Performance
  • Zipf’s Law and Its Role in Web Caching
  • References.

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