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Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
A unique and hashed value to identify an object.
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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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