Simulation Evaluation of a Heterogeneous Web Proxy Caching Hierarchy

  • Authors:
  • Mudashiru Busari;Carey Williamson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • MASCOTS '01 Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium in Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: This paper uses trace-driven simulations to evaluate the performance of different cache management techniques for multi-level Web proxy caching hierarchies. In particular, the experiments consider heterogeneous cache replacement policies within a two-level caching hierarchy, and size-based partitioning across the levels of a caching hierarchy. Three different synthetic Web proxy workloads are used in the study, reflecting complete overlap, partial overlap, and no overlap in the workloads seen by the child-level proxies. The simulation results demonstrate that heterogeneous replacement policies and size-based partitioning each offer modest improvements in caching performance. The sensitivity of the results to the degree of workload overlap is also discussed.