Data allocation in distributed database systems
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Competitive distributed file allocation
STOC '93 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Locating nearby copies of replicated Internet servers
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
An adaptive data replication algorithm
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
On the scale and performance of cooperative Web proxy caching
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The content and access dynamics of a busy Web site: findings and implications
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Comparative Models of the File Assignment Problem
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Web caching and replication
Selecting among replicated batching video-on-demand servers
NOSSDAV '02 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
WWW Traffic Reduction and Load Balancing through Server-Based Caching
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
Clustering Web Content for Efficient Replication
ICNP '02 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
WebWave: Globally Load Balanced Fully Distributed Caching of Hot Published Documents
ICDCS '97 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '97)
Maintaining Strong Cache Consistency in the World-Wide Web
ICDCS '97 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '97)
ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
Load Balancing in Distributed Web Server Systems with Partial Document Replication
ICPP '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing
A Dynamic Object Replication and Migration Protocol for an Internet Hosting Service
ICDCS '99 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
An Overview of Data Replication on the Internet
ISPAN '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks
Choosing Replica Placement Heuristics for Wide-Area Systems
ICDCS '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04)
SkipNet: a scalable overlay network with practical locality properties
USITS'03 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 4
Exploring the bounds of web latency reduction from caching and prefetching
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Optimal File Allocation in a Multiple Computer System
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Object replication strategies in content distribution networks
Computer Communications
Topology-informed Internet replica placement
Computer Communications
Review: A survey on content-centric technologies for the current Internet: CDN and P2P solutions
Computer Communications
The Scope for online social network aided caching in web CDNs
ANCS '13 Proceedings of the ninth ACM/IEEE symposium on Architectures for networking and communications systems
Estimating instantaneous cache hit ratio using Markov chain analysis
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Measuring temporal redundancy in sequences of video requests in a News-on-Demand service
Telematics and Informatics
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Caching and replication have emerged as the two primary techniques for reducing the delay experienced by end-users when downloading web pages. Even though these techniques may benefit from each other, previous research work tends to focus on either one of them separately. In particular, caching has been studied mostly in the context of proxy server systems, while replication is the technology behind Content Distribution Networks (CDNs). In this paper we investigate the potential performance gain by using a CDN server both as a replicator and as a proxy server. We develop an analytical model to quantify the benefit of each technique, under various system parameters, and propose a greedy algorithm to solve the combined caching and replica placement problem. Our simulation results indicate that a simple LRU caching scheme can improve significantly the response time of HTTP requests, when utilized over a replication-based infrastructure. Moreover, due to its simplicity, this hybrid approach does not affect the administrative overhead of the CDN architecture.