Web Caching and its Applications

• Main Author: Nagaraj, S. V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
• Series: The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 772
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Computer communication systems.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.

The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in the usage of the World Wide Web. The Web has grown so fast that it seems to be becoming an unusable and slow behemoth. Web caching is one way to tame and make this behemoth a friendly and useful giant. The key idea in Web caching is to cache frequently...