Demand-based document dissemination to reduce traffic and balance load in distributed information systems

• Published in: Proceedings.Seventh IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing pp. 338 - 345
• Main Author: Bestavros, A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1995
• Subjects: Access protocols; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Delay; File servers; Information retrieval; Network servers; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Web server

Research on replication techniques to reduce traffic and minimize the latency of information retrieval in a distributed system has concentrated on client-based caching, whereby recently/frequently accessed information is cached at a client (or at a proxy thereof) in anticipation of future accesses....