The World Wide Web can be considered as a large distributed information system that
provides access to shared data objects. As one of the most popular applications currently …

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 …

Many distributed applications can make use of large background transfers--transfers of data
that humans are not waiting for--to improve availability, reliability, latency or consistency …

This paper provides a survey of transport protocols and congestion control mechanisms that
are designed to have a smaller bandwidth and/or delay impact on standard TCP than …

Web prefetching is based on Web caching and attempts to reduce user-perceived latency.
Unlike on-demand caching, Web prefetching fetches objects and stores them in advance …

Predictive Web prefetching refers to the mechanism of deducing the forthcoming page
accesses of a client based on its past accesses. In this paper, we present a new context for …

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web has caused serious performance degradation on
the Internet. This paper offers an end-to-end approach to improving Web performance by …

This paper develops a new method for prefetching Web pages into the client cache. Clients
send reference information to Web servers, which aggregate the reference information in …

(57) ABSTRACT A data prefetching technique optimizes the batch size of prefetch requests.
The optimized batch size may be deter mined based on a prefetch transfer time of a previous …

The resolution of a host name to an IP-address is a necessary predecessor to connection
establishment and HTTP exchanges. Nonetheless, domain name system (DNS) resolutions …