Web Caching and Its Applications

The last decade has seen tremendous growth in usage of the World Wide Web. Web caching is a technology aimed at reducing the transmission of redundant network traffic and improving access to the Web. The key idea in Web caching is to cache frequently accessed content so that it may be used profitably later. This book helps readers to understand the latest developments in Web caching research, and features exercises for applying the knowledge to solving practical problems related to Web caching and Internet performance. The book includes an exhaustive list of references for further study.

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Architectural Aspects.- Various Flavors of Web Caching.- Comparing Cache Deployment Options.- Caching Architectures.- Caching Dynamic Data.- Aspects Requiring Co-Ordination.- Inter-Cache Communication.- Routing Requests to Caches.- Cache Replacement Algorithms.- Cache Coherency.- Aspects Related to Traffic.- Web Traffic Characteristics.- Forecasting Patterns of Access.- Complementary Techniques.- Prefetching.- Load Balancing.- Replication.- Practical Aspects.- Fault Tolerance in Caching Systems.- Caching for Libraries, ISPs and Others.- Building Cache Friendly Web Sites.- Caching at the Global Level.- Aspects Related to Performance.- Measuring Performance.- Zipf's Law and Its Role in Web Caching.- References.