WCW 1998, 3rd International WWW caching workshop, June 15-17, 1998, Manchester, UK
Low latency is crucial for the success of the WWW. Access to popular pages can lead to high latency
due to overloaded servers. In this paper we compare the delivery of popular and changing Web documents
through a caching hierarchy with the delivery of the same documents through a multicast distribution. We
have found that except for popular documents that change very fast, caching is preferable to multicast.
However, for hot and short-lived documents a multicast distribution reduces the latency to the receivers,
saves network bandwidth, and reduces the load on the original server. Therefore, a distribution scheme
for Web documents on the Internet should implement both solutions, caching and multicast.
Type:
Conference
City:
Manchester
Date:
1998-06-05
Department:
Digital Security
Eurecom Ref:
132
Copyright:
© Elsevier. Personal use of this material is permitted. The definitive version of this paper was published in WCW 1998, 3rd International WWW caching workshop, June 15-17, 1998, Manchester, UK and is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00237-2
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