A Distributed Sharing Model of the Browser Cache

Caching can improve the browser´s efficiency, this paper proposes one distributed sharing model of the browser cache: each end-host´s address and the Web site URL address are mapped to the identical key space, the storing information of the shared cache mapped to key k is saved on the same key k mapped end-host; it also presents a distributed lookup protocol with a constant O(1) hop per lookup request, in which one lookup request can mostly be transferred once before reaching the target node, that guarantees the browser´s loading speed. Furthermore, we have built a prototype of the proposed model, and our experimental results demonstrate that it achieves a satisfied performance in the latency of response, hit-ratio, and memory overhead.