One role for workload generation is as a means for understanding how servers and
networks respond to variation in load. This enables management and capacity planning …

The increasing demand for World Wide Web (WWW) services has made document caching
a necessity to decrease download times and reduce Internet traffic. To make effective use of …

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 paper addresses two unresolved issues about Web caching. The first issue is whether
Web requests from a fixed user community are distributed according to Zipf's (1929) law. The …

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 …

This comprehensive text gives an interesting and useful blend of the mathematical,
probabilistic and statistical tools used in heavy-tail analysis. Heavy tails are characteristic of …

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) offers non-volatility, byte-addressability and fast
access at the same time. To make the best use of these properties, it has been shown by …

The notion of self-similarity has been shown to apply to wide-area and local-area network
traffic. We show evidence that the subset of network traffic that is due to World Wide Web …

Zipf's law governs many features of the Internet. Observations of Zipf distributions, while
interesting in and of themselves, have strong implications for the design and function of the …

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 …