Web caching technology has been widely used to improve the performance of the Web
infrastructure and reduce user-perceived network latencies. Proxy caching is a major Web …

We describe the design and implementation of an integrated architecture for cache systems
that scale to hundreds or thousands of caches with thousands to millions of users. Rather …

Web content caches are often placed between end-users and origin servers as a mean to
reduce server load, network usage, and ultimately, user-perceived latency. Cached objects …

The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing analyzes a broad array of technologies and
concerns related to the Internet, including corporate intranets. Fresh and insightful articles by …

In this paper, we argue that weak cache consistency mechanisms supported by existing
Web proxy caches must be augmented by strong consistency mechanisms to support the …

This paper describes quorum leases, a new technique that allows Paxos-based systems to
perform reads with high throughput and low latency. Quorum leases do not sacrifice …

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) provide an attractive solution for networking in the
situations where network infrastructure or service subscription is not available. Its usage can …

In this paper, we examine the potential benefits of web proxy caches in improving the
effective capacity of servers and networks. Since networks and servers are typically …

Regular expressions are widely used in network intrusion detection system (NIDS) to
represent patterns of network attacks. Since traditional software-only NIDS cannot catch up …

Making cloud services responsive is critical to providing a compelling user experience.
Many largescale sites, including LinkedIn, Digg and Facebook, address this need by …