A Study of Caching Proxy Mechanisms Realized on Wide Area Distributed Networks

Authors:
Masato;Kinji Ono
Affiliations:
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Venue:
HPDC '96 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Year:
1996

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Abstract

The information retrieval systems on a wide area distributed network, such as the World-Wide Web(WWW), become popular among the extremely large number of users. The caching proxy has an important role on these systems for improving their accessibility and serviceability. The caching proxy mechanism is discussed in this paper as follows: First, the role and structure of the caching proxy are explained, and two major problems of existing systems are pointed out. Our solution to overcome these problems is proposed next. Changing a file size, by controlling a quality level of cached multimedia data, is proposed as a measure to overcome one problem. As a solution to the other problem, making a cluster among neighboring caching proxies, using hyperlink information, is proposed. Finally, an improved caching proxy mechanism based upon these ideas is shown.