This article presents a survey of recent advancements in application-layer overlay networks.
Some of the most important applications that have been proposed for overlays include …

This paper describes the design and use of a synthetic web proxy workload generator called
ProWGen to investigate the sensitivity of web proxy cache replacement policies to five …

Software mechanisms that enforce QoS guarantees often require knowledge of platform
capacity and resource demand. This requirement calls for performance measurements and …

A system and method for comparing a digest value in an incoming response to a digest
index (eg, a hash table). The digest index includes digest values of data objects already …

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With the dramatic explosion of online information, the Internet is undergoing a transition from
a data communication infrastructure to a global information utility. PDAs, wireless phones …

This paper describes the design and use of a synthetic Web proxy workload generator
(ProWGen) to investigate the sensitivity of proxy cache replacement policies to selected Web …

Organizations use Web caches to avoid transferring the same data twice over the same
path. Numerous studies have shown that forward proxy caches, in practice, incur miss rates …

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PATENT DOCUMENTS gram products, for delta handling in server pages. A server method …

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 …