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The two most commonly used Web browsers, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, lack Web prefetching capability, which can reduce time latency for retrieving Web documents over the Internet. In this paper, we propose a client-based Web prefetching management system, called CPMS, which is based on the caching schema of Netscape Navigator. CPMS includes a prefetching engine, which predicts and prefetches Web documents and their linked documents that have high hit rate, minimizes traffic increase, and reduces time latency in accessing Web documents. We adopt detection theory to determine the threshold value that dictates which Web documents and their links should be prefetched. Besides the prefetching engine, CPMS also provides a graphical interface that allows the user to activate, delete, and modify any computed prefetching schedule.
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Lau, K., Ng, YK. (2004). A Client-Based Web Prefetching Management System Based on Detection Theory. In: Chi, CH., van Steen, M., Wills, C. (eds) Web Content Caching and Distribution. WCW 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3293. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30471-5_10
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