Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

1997-01-01

Filename

WUCS-97-24.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-97-24

Abstract

Current network technology is bandwidth-rich but latency-poor; thus round-trip delays will dominate access latency for web traffic. We describe four new techniques that reduce the round-trips needed for web accesses. The techniques are based on the paradigm of preprocessing a web page to collect information about links and inline data in the page. Stored Address Binding almost always eliminates the DNS lookup (which can cost seconds) at the start of a transaction. In Informed Server Proxying, a server tells its client that it has cached pages referenced in a page the client just retrieved; this allows the client to retrieve the pages from its current connection, instead of creating a new connection. In Selective Link Redirect, a server can direct its client to any server that has cached a page referenced in the current document; this allows cooperating servers to balance load. Finally, Auto Inline Download allows a server to send inline data such as images and applets, without additional client requests. We describe implementations and measurements of these techniques.

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Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7FJ2F1C

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