Intelligent browser initiated server pushing

Author

Tang, Wenting ; Mutka, Matt W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

23

Abstract

This paper proposes enhanced browser initiated pushing (BIP) approaches to reduce the download latency for web pages and to improve web server resource utilization. In our BIP approaches, upon receiving a HTTP request, the server actively pushes embedded contents if the permission is given by the client. By means of the pushing mechanism, the HTML web page will be downloaded in one RTT if the embedded contents and the HTML web page are on the same server. The number of requests a web server receives may be reduced significantly and the percentage of HTML documents that may benefit from BIP is quite high. Using trace-driven simulation, this paper presents an evaluation of enhanced BIP approaches that vary in the manner that client cache information is conveyed to the server

Keywords

discrete event simulation; hypermedia; hypermedia markup languages; search engines; transport protocols; HTTP request; client cache information; download latency; intelligent browser initiated server pushing; trace-driven simulation; web pages; web server resource utilization; Computer science; Delay; Electronic mail; HTML; Permission; Prefetching; Resource management; Traffic control; Web pages; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2000. IPCCC '00. Conference Proceeding of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5979-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.2000.830296

Filename

830296