Owing to the imminent fixed mobile convergence, Internet applications are frequently
accessed through mobile devices. Given limited bandwidth and unreliable wireless …

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 …

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 …

The rapid increase of World Wide Web users and the development of services with high
bandwidth requirements have caused the substantial increase of response times for users …

Applications, deployed over a wide area network (WAN) which may connect across
metropolitan, regional or national boundaries, suffer performance degradation owing to …

We present the implementation of a large-scale latency estimation system based on GNP
and incorporated into the Google content delivery network. Our implementation employs …

Web prefetching mechanisms have been proposed to benefit web users by hiding the
download latencies. Nevertheless, to the knowledge of the authors, there is no attempt to …

Web prefetching techniques have been pointed out to be especially important to reduce
perceived web latencies and, consequently, an important amount of work can be found in …

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 …

Green communications is a very hot topic. As mobile networks evolve in terms of higher
rates/throughput, a consequent impact on operating costs is due to (aggregate) network …