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What is Proxy Caches

Chapter 62
Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
These caches are located at computer network access points for web users. Proxy caches can store copies of web objects and directly serve requests for them in the network. Therefore they reduce user delays by avoiding repeated requests to origin web servers.
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Speeding Up the Internet in Big Data Era: Exploiting Historical User Request Patterns for Web Caching to Reduce User Delays
Chetan (Chet) Kumar (California State University – San Marcos, USA)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9787-4.ch062
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Chapter 96
Speeding up the Internet: Exploiting Historical User Request Patterns for Web Caching
These caches are located at computer network access points for web users. Proxy caches can store copies of web objects and directly serve requests for them in the network. Therefore they reduce user delays by avoiding repeated requests to origin web servers.
Published in Chapter: Speeding up the Internet: Exploiting Historical User Request Patterns for Web Caching; From: Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
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