Web Caching
Web Caching Research Projects
There are many research projects on web caching underway at a variety of institutions around the world. This page will attempt to list them (in no particular order) and when possible, provide a brief description of the research. Additions and corrections to this list are welcome.
Of course, some ask why do caching research at all? To that question we have prepared a few answers.
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At Lehigh University, research
is centered on
improving the client's perception of the web by reducing user-perceived
latencies. Research includes prefetching methods and an
architecture for online proxy evaluation.
Boston University offers OCEANS: Object Caching Environments for Applications and Network Services research group.
The University of Wisconsin offers WisWeb: Scalable, Consistent, High-Performance Web Services and the Wisconsin Proxy Benchmark and briefly, the Peregrine proxy cache.
The Squid Web Proxy Cache is likely the most popular proxy cache software because it is freely available and runs on many Unix platforms.
The Adaptive Web Caching project at LBL/UCLA.
w3cache -- WWW Cache in Poland
The NAIST Information Network Laboratory has produced the WWW Collector, which uses prefetching to reduce latency at the expense of increased bandwidth.
The National JANET WEB Cache in the U.K.
The Relais cooperative caching project from INRIA is based on Squid, but with different communication protocols to efficiently refresh multiple systems when one learns new information about staleness of an object.
The WEAVE Prototype from the Caravel Project in INRIA provides a means of optimizing website performance and generation for sites built from data in relational databases. Caching can be performed at many levels.
Researchers at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have developed a CDN simulator.
I know there are many others that should also be listed here... please let me know of additional projects and I'll add them.
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