Summary cache: a scalable wide-area Web cache sharing protocol

• Published in: IEEE/ACM transactions on networking Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 281 - 293
• Main Authors: Li Fan, Pei Cao, Almeida, J., Broder, A.Z.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.06.2000; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Bit rate; Cache memory; Computer science; Data analysis; Directories; Economics; Inductively coupled plasma; Internet; Messages; Particle measurements; Protocol; Proxy client servers; Queries; Routing protocols; Summaries; Telecommunication traffic; Virtual prototyping

The sharing of caches among Web proxies is an important technique to reduce Web traffic and alleviate network bottlenecks. Nevertheless it is not widely deployed due to the overhead of existing protocols. In this paper we demonstrate the benefits of cache sharing, measure the overhead of the existin...