Web Caching and Its Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Architectural Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Various Flavors of Web Caching

      Pages 3-16

   3. Comparing Cache Deployment Options

      Pages 17-19

   4. Caching Architectures

      Pages 21-38

   5. Caching Dynamic Data

      Pages 39-46

3. Aspects Requiring Co-Ordination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Inter-Cache Communication

      Pages 49-55

   3. Routing Requests to Caches

      Pages 57-59

   4. Cache Replacement Algorithms

      Pages 61-72

   5. Cache Coherency

      Pages 73-85

4. Aspects Related to Traffic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Web Traffic Characteristics

      Pages 89-97

   3. Forecasting Patterns of Access

      Pages 99-101

5. Complementary Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Prefetching

      Pages 105-122

   3. Load Balancing

      Pages 123-125

   4. Replication

      Pages 127-132

6. Practical Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Fault Tolerance in Caching Systems

      Pages 135-137

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 caching is one way to tame and make this behemoth a friendly and useful giant. The key idea in Web caching is to cache frequently accessed content so that it may be used profitably later. This book focuses entirely on Web caching techniques. Much of the material in this book is very relevant for those interested in understanding the wide gamut of Web caching research. It will be helpful for those interested in making use of the power of the Web in a more profitable way. Audience and purpose of this book This book presents key concepts in Web caching and is meant to be suited for a wide variety of readers including advanced undergraduate and graduate students‚ programmers‚ network administrators‚ researchers‚ teachers‚ techn- ogists and Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

• Internet
• Performance
• Routing
• ZIP
• algorithms
• architecture
• load balancing

• Chennai, India

  S. V. Nagaraj

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