Role of Aging, Frequency, and Size in Web Cache Replacement Policies
HPCN Europe 2001 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Networking
Replacing media caches in streaming proxy servers
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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Abstract The relative importance of long-term popularity and short-term temporal correlation of references for Web cache replacement policies has not been studied thoroughly. This is partially due to the lack of accurate characterization of temporal locality that enables the identification of the relative strengths of these two sources of temporal locality in a reference stream. In [JB99], we have proposed such a metric and have shown that Web reference streams differ significantly in the the prevelance of these two sources of temporal locality. These findings underscore the importance of a Web caching strategy that can adapt in a dynamic fashion to the prevelance of these two sources of temporal locality. In this paper, we propose a novel cache replacement algorithm, GreedyDual*, which is a generalization of GreedyDual-Size. GreedyDual* uses the metrics proposed in [JB99] to adjust the relative worth of long-term popularity versus short-term temporal correlation of references. Our trace-driven simulation experiments show the superior performance of GreedyDual* when compared to other Web cache replacement policies proposed in the literature.