About this product: Web Caching explores the intricacies of implementing caching in Web server environments to reduce network traffic and improve performance. Like so many areas of Internet technology, the topic of Web caching comprises a number of architectural and practical issues that could take a career to learn the hard way. Fortunately, author Duane Wessels has organized all the nuts-and-bolts technical information in this short book.
This guide to turbo-charging the Web is primarily geared toward system administrators; however, Web developers can also learn much about the proper--and improper--use of caching their pages. The book begins with excellent chapters on the big picture of how Web caching works, including the various types of caches, hit measurements, validation, and cache refreshing. Before turning to this guide's core focus--designing and implementing caching--the author spends a chapter to explore the political issues surrounding the technology, such as privacy, content distribution, and copyrights.
Both client and server configurations are considered, and the benefits of Netscape and Microsoft implementations are explored. The journey through the efficient travels of Web requests is fascinating as you learn about proxies, intercache protocols, cache hierarchies, and benchmarking methodologies for measuring the efficiency of your solutions. Dishing up requests elegantly is not a trivial task on today's Web, but this no-nonsense book is a great help toward that goal. --Stephen W. Plain
About this product: Authors report a wealth of detailed information about how to implement Web caching and replication mechanisms, but more importantly, they teach one how to think about the general problem of content distribution. Softcover.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, WCW 2004, held in Beijing, China, in October 2004.
The 15 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on placement and redirection, structured overlays, architectural issues, multimedia caching, caching in peer-to-peer systems, algorithms, systems management, and systems evaluation.
About this product: The last decade has seen tremendous growth in usage of the World Wide Web. Web caching is a technology aimed at reducing the transmission of redundant network traffic and improving access to the Web. The key idea in Web caching is to cache frequently- accessed content so that it may be used profitably later. This leads to cost savings, reduction in network traffic, improved access and better content availability. Web Caching and Its Applications gives the reader an understanding of the latest developments in Web caching research. Topics covered include architectural aspects, aspects requiring coordination among caches, aspects related to network traffic, techniques that complement caching, practical aspects, and aspects related to performance. While Web Caching and Its Applications is designed for a professional audience, students will appreciate the exercises for applying the knowledge to solving practical problems related to Web caching and Internet performance. The book includes an exhaustive list of references for further study.
About this product: The International Web Content Caching and Distribution Workshop (WCW) is a premiere technical meeting for researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of content caching, distribution and delivery on the Internet. The 2001 WCW meeting was held on the Boston University Campus. Building on the successes of the five previous WCW meetings, WCW01 featured a strong technical program and record participation from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. This book consists of all the technical papers presented at WCW'01. It includes 20 full papers and four R&D synopses that were presented at the workshop.
The collection reflects the latest research in this important area, including such topics as Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), tools and methodology of performance measurements, Web characterization as relates to caching and content distribution, scalable web server architectures, cache prefetching, emerging new edge services, and delivery of streaming content.
About this product: Web caching and content delivery technologies provide the infrastructure on which systems are built for the scalable distribution of information. This proceedings of the eighth annual workshop, captures a cross-section of the latest issues and techniques of interest to network architects and researchers in large-scale content delivery. Topics covered include the distribution of streaming multimedia, edge caching and computation, multicast, delivery of dynamic content, enterprise content delivery, streaming proxies and servers, content transcoding, replication and caching strategies, peer-to-peer content delivery, and Web prefetching. Web Content Caching and Distribution encompasses all areas relating to the intersection of storage and networking for Internet content services. The book is divided into eight parts: mobility, applications, architectures, multimedia, customization, peer-to-peer, performance and measurement, and delta encoding.
About this product: The concept of content delivery has become increasingly more important due to rapidly growing demands for efficient distribution and fast access of information from the Internet. The content can be diverse and broad-ranging, and the desire to facilitate ubiquitous information access demands varied network architectures and hardware devices. The need to deliver quality information – given the nature of the content, network connections and client devices – introduces various challenges for content delivery technologies. Web Content Delivery offers the most comprehensive coverage of state-of-the-art research, providing insightful and thought-provoking possibilities for the future of web applications. Written by leading international researchers, the book focuses on web content delivery, dynamic web content, streaming media delivery and ubiquitous web access. Web Content Delivery is an essential reference for both academic researchers and industrial practitioners.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2004, held in Hangzhou, China, in April 2004.
The 60 revised full papers, 24 revised short papers, 15 revised poster papers, and 3 revised industrial papers presented together with 3 keynote papers and 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 386 full paper submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on web semantics, web personalization, web intelligence, XML processing, XML and Databases, P2P systems and applications, grid computing and networking, web-based query processing, advanced query processing, advanced applications, knowledge discovery and pattern recognition, web mining, data mining and data analysis, text mining, information retrieval, web services and web computing, web safety, web technologies, web caching and mobile objects, workflow management, and e-commerce.
About this product: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and the 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, held in Huang Shan, China in June 2007. The 47 revised full papers and 36 revised short papers presented together with 4 invited papers and the abstracts of 4 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 554 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining and knowledge discovery, information retrieval, P2P systems, sensor networks, spatial and temporal databases, Web mining, XML and semi-structured data, sensor networks and grids, query processing and optimization, data streams, data integration and collaborative systems, data mining and e-learning, data mining, privacy and security, as well as data mining and data streams.
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