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Evaluation of Edge Caching/Offloading for Dynamic Content Delivery

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Zheng ZhangAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 16, Issue 11

Pages 1411 - 1423

https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2004.73

Published: 01 November 2004 Publication History

Abstract

As dynamic content becomes increasingly dominant, it becomes an important research topic as how the edge resources such as client-side proxies, which are otherwise underutilized for such content, can be put into use. However, it is unclear what will be the best strategy, and the design/deployment trade offs lie therein. In this paper, using one representative e-commerce benchmark, we report our experience of an extensive investigation of different offloading and caching options. Our results point out that, while great benefits can be reached in general, advanced offloading strategies can be overly complex and even counterproductive. In contrast, simple augmentation at proxies to enable fragment caching and page composition achieves most of the benefit without compromising important considerations such as security. We also present Proxy+ architecture which supports such capabilities for existing Web applications with minimal reengineering effort.

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Ravi JYu ZShi W(2009)A survey on dynamic Web content generation and delivery techniquesJournal of Network and Computer Applications10.1016/j.jnca.2009.03.00532:5(943-960)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2009
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Ramaswamy LLiu LIyengar A(2007)Scalable Delivery of Dynamic Content Using a Cooperative Edge Cache GridIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering10.1109/TKDE.2007.103119:5(614-630)Online publication date: 1-May-2007
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Evaluation of Edge Caching/Offloading for Dynamic Content Delivery
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Evaluation of retrieval results
    2. Search engine architectures and scalability
      1. Distributed retrieval
      2. Peer-to-peer retrieval
  2. Information storage systems
    1. Storage architectures
      1. Distributed storage

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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Volume 16, Issue 11

November 2004

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Li GShen QLiu YCao HHan ZLi FLi J(2018)Data-driven Approaches to Edge CachingProceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Networking for Emerging Applications and Technologies10.1145/3229574.3229582(8-14)Online publication date: 7-Aug-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229574.3229582
Ravi JYu ZShi W(2009)A survey on dynamic Web content generation and delivery techniquesJournal of Network and Computer Applications10.1016/j.jnca.2009.03.00532:5(943-960)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jnca.2009.03.005
Ramaswamy LLiu LIyengar A(2007)Scalable Delivery of Dynamic Content Using a Cooperative Edge Cache GridIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering10.1109/TKDE.2007.103119:5(614-630)Online publication date: 1-May-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TKDE.2007.1031
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