Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
1996-01-01
Technical Report Number
WUCS-96-20
Abstract
Network traffic can be reduced significantly if caching is utilized effectively. As an effort in this direction we study the replacement problem that arises in caching of multimedia objects. The size of objects and the cost of cache misses are assumed non-uniform. The non-uniformity of size is inherent in multimedia objects, and the non-uniformity of cost is due to the non-uniformity of size and the fact that the objects are scattered throughout the network. Although a special case of this problem, i.e. the case of uniform size and cost, has been extensively studied, the general case needs a great deal of study. We present a dynamic programming method of optimally solving the off-line and on-line versions of this problem, and discuss the complexity of this method.
Recommended Citation
Hosseini-Khayat, Saied and Cox, Jerome R., "Optimal Solution of Off-line and On-line Generalized Caching" Report Number: WUCS-96-20 (1996). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/411
Comments
Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7PC30MF