Using speculation to reduce server load and service time on the WWW
CIKM '95 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Data Communications and Networking 2nd Edition
Data Communications and Networking 2nd Edition
The portrait of a common HTML web page
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Document engineering
An optimal solution for caching multimedia objects in transcoding proxies
Computer Communications
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The purpose of this work is to reduce the delivery time for the initial portion of multimedia objects over HTTP protocol. The multimedia files we consider are those embedded in web pages. By prefetching embedded media from server to client, we are able to overcome the effects of network latency. We implement prefetching in a custom built HTTP server capable of anticipating future requests from the client, and delivering data without it explicitly being requested. To allow the client to receive files not requested, we use a custom built proxy, to run on the client system. Our custom server and proxy implement modifications to the HTTP protocol to allow multiple files to be delivered in a single transmission.