Integrating caching techniques on a content distribution network
Date
2006ISSN
0302-9743Source
10th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2006Volume
4152 LNCSPages
200-215Google Scholar check
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Web caching and replication tune capacity with performance and they have become essential components of the Web. In practice, caching and replication techniques have been applied in proxy servers and Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) respectively. In this paper, we investigate the benefits of integrating caching policies on a CDN' s infrastructure. Using a simulation testbed, our results indicate that there is much room for performance improvement in terms of perceived latency, hit ratio and byte hit ratio. Moreover, we show that the combination of caching with replication fortifies CDNs against flash crowd events. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.