Web Caching and Replication

Preface

In the past few years, the Web has transformed the Internet from a research tool of the few to an essential part of the everyday life of many. As its proliferation in all aspects of human activities continues, it becomes more important for users to get acceptable performance when using the Web. At the same time the demand for Web capacity and the Internet in general increases, not only due to the growing number of users who spend more and more time online, but also because of the emergence of new resource-hungry applications such as video and audio on-demand and distributed games. In addition to human users, computer applications increasingly rely on the Web; their demand for performance is even greater. While a human may not notice or ...