Understanding and Improving Modern Web Traffic Caching

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Understanding and Improving Modern Web Traffic Caching (2011)

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by Sunghwan Ihm , Adviser Vivek , S. Pai

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@TECHREPORT{Ihm11understandingand,
    author = {Sunghwan Ihm and Adviser Vivek and S. Pai},
    title = {Understanding and Improving Modern Web Traffic Caching},
    institution = {},
    year = {2011}
}

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Abstract

The WorldWide Web is one of the most popular and important Internet applications, and our daily lives heavily rely on it. Despite its importance, the current Web access is still limited for two reasons: (1) the Web has changed and grown significantly as social networking, video streaming, and file hosting sites have become popular, requiring more and more bandwidth, and (2) the need for Web access also has grown, and many users in bandwidth-limited environments, such as people in the developing world or mobile device users, still suffer from poor Web access. There was a burst of research a decade ago aimed at understanding the nature of Web traffic and thus improving Web access, but unfortunately, it has dropped off just as the Web has changed significantly. As a result, we have little understanding of the underlying nature of today’s Web traffic, and thus miss traffic optimization opportunitiesforimprovingWebaccess. TohelpimproveWebaccess, thisdissertation attempts to fill the missing gap between previous research and today’s Web. Forabetter understanding of today’sWebtraffic, we first analyze five years(2006-2010) of real Web traffic from a globally-distributed proxy system, which captures

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