Caching and Prefetching for Web Content Distribution
Abstract— Proxy caching is an effective technique to reduce the network resources consumed by web services as well as the access latencies perceived by web users. This article discusses the issues and challenges of deploying web caching proxies over the Internet. We focus on the cache management for conventional web objects such as HTML pages and images and present the state-of-the-art solutions to various cache management problems including prefetching, consistency maintenance, and cooperative caching. We also highlight several possible research directions with the emerging applications and services. < final year projects >
