On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes
Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Using predictive prefetching to improve World Wide Web latency
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A case for delay-conscious caching of Web documents
Selected papers from the sixth international conference on World Wide Web
Determining WWW User's Next Access and Its Application to Pre-fetching
ISCC '97 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '97)
System design issues for internet middleware services: deductions from a large client trace
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Alleviating the latency and bandwidth problems in WWW browsing
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Practical guidelines for boosting Java server performance
JAVA '99 Proceedings of the ACM 1999 conference on Java Grande
Enhancing Java server availability with JAS
Software—Practice & Experience
Predicting web actions from HTML content
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
QoS-based Architectures for Geographically Replicated Web Servers
Cluster Computing
Web++ architecture, design and performance
World Wide Web
Prediction of Web Page Accesses by Proxy Server Log
World Wide Web
Exploiting Web Log Mining for Web Cache Enhancement
WEBKDD '01 Revised Papers from the Third International Workshop on Mining Web Log Data Across All Customers Touch Points
A Data Mining Algorithm for Generalized Web Prefetching
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
On scalable and locality-aware web document sharing
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Scalable web services and architecture
A Keyword-Based Semantic Prefetching Approach in Internet News Services
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Statistical buffering for streaming media data access in a mobile environment
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
User behavior modeling and content based speculative web page prefetching
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: ER 2003
Web++: a system for fast and reliable web service
ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
A web-based multi-agent system approach to document engineering
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
Mobile learning support with statistical inference-based cache management
ICWL'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in web based learning
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Accessing remote sites of the World Wide Web is often a frustrating experience for users because of long Web page retrieval times even over relatively fast Internet connections. Users are more likely to embrace the further expansion of the role of the Web into a major infrastructure for electronic commerce and for information, application, and multimedia delivery if Web accesses can be accelerated. One technique that attempts this is prefetching. We built a client-side Java-implemented prefetching agent, WebCompanion, which employs a novel adaptive, fast, and selective online prefetching strategy based on estimated round-trip times for Web resources. This strategy efficiently hides the access latencies for slow resources while at the same time limiting the network and server overhead and local resource consumption to moderate levels. Our extensive experiments show an average access speed-up of greater than 50 percent and an average network byte overhead of less than 150 percent using WebCompanion over a fast Internet connection. We measured a slight acceleration in accessing the Web through WebCompanion even in a pessimistic scenario where the user never requests a prefetched document.