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Chapter 25
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
An application or daemon to help the communication of the client-cluster.
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Efficient and Scalable Client-Clustering for Proxy Cache
Kyungbaek Kim (University of California, Irvine, USA) and Daeyeon Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch025
Abstract
The recent increase in popularity of the Web has led to a considerable increase in the amount of Internet traffic. As a result, the Web has now become one of the primary bottlenecks to network performance and web caching has become an increasingly important issue. Web caching aims to reduce network traffic, server load, and user-perceived retrieval delay by replicating popular content on caches that are strategically placed within the network. Browser caches reside in the clients’ desktop, and proxy caches are deployed on dedicated machines at the boundary of corporate network and Internet service providers.
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Railway Engineering: Timetable Planning and Control, Artificial Intelligence and Externalities
According UIC 406, is a point of a railway network where the train can overtake, crossing or running in reverse direction. The station is a defined place where the trains stop to passengers leave it.
Published in Chapter: Railway Engineering: Timetable Planning and Control, Artificial Intelligence and Externalities; From: Latin American Women and Research Contributions to the IT Field
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