Summary: 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '99)
Published as Operating Systems Review 34(5):16--31, Dec. 1999
On the scale and performance
of cooperative Web proxy caching
Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Nitin Sharma,
Neal Cardwell, Anna Karlin, and Henry M. Levy
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
fwolman,voelker,nitin,cardwell,karlin,levyg@cs.washington.edu
Abstract
While algorithms for cooperative proxy caching have been
widely studied, little is understood about cooperative­
caching performance in the large­scale World Wide Web en­
vironment. This paper uses both trace­based analysis and
analytic modelling to show the potential advantages and
drawbacks of inter­proxy cooperation. With our traces, we
evaluate quantitatively the performance­improvement po­
tential of cooperation between 200 small­organization prox­
ies within a university environment, and between two large­
organization proxies handling 23,000 and 60,000 clients, re­

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle
Newhall, Tia - Computer Science Department, Swarthmore College

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