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What is Web Caching

Chapter 96
Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
This involves temporary storage of web object copies at locations that are relatively close to the end user. Consequently user requests can be served faster than if they were served directly from the origin web server.
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Speeding up the Internet: Exploiting Historical User Request Patterns for Web Caching
Chetan Kumar (California State University San Marcos, USA)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-611-7.ch096
Abstract
The Internet has witnessed a tremendous growth in the amount of available information, and this trend of increasing traffic is likely to continue. According to a Cisco Systems forecast report (2008) the growth in Internet traffic is to be driven by Web 2.0 technologies such as video and social networking and collaboration. Some excerpts of the Cisco forecast report (2008) are as follows.
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Speeding Up the Internet in Big Data Era: Exploiting Historical User Request Patterns for Web Caching to Reduce User Delays
This involves temporary storage of web object copies at locations that are relatively close to the end user. Consequently user requests can be served faster than if they were served directly from the origin web server.
Published in Chapter: Speeding Up the Internet in Big Data Era: Exploiting Historical User Request Patterns for Web Caching to Reduce User Delays; From: Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
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