Web Proxy Cache Replacement Strategies Simulation, Implementation, a

This work presents a study of cache replacement strategies designed for static web content. Proxy servers can improve performance by caching static web content such as cascading style sheets, java script source files, and large files such as images. This

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Hala ElAarag

Web Proxy Cache Replacement Strategies Simulation, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation With Contributions by Sam Romano and Jake Cobb

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Hala ElAarag Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Stetson University DeLand, FL USA

ISSN 2191-5768 ISBN 978-1-4471-4892-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4893-7

ISSN 2191-5776 (electronic) ISBN 978-1-4471-4893-7 (eBook)

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Preface

The need for this book stems from the sheer amount of modern web traffic coupled with increases in cacheable, bandwidth-consuming multimedia objects. In this book, we provide the most comprehensive study for proxy cache replacement strategies. We categorize these strategies into four categories; recency-based, frequency-based, recency/frequency-based, and function-based. We provide a quantitative comparison of cache replac