- From: <touch@ISI.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 14:26:39 -0800
- To: sneaker+@CMU.EDU, mogul@pa.dec.com
- Cc: www-talk@www0.cern.ch, www-speed@tipper.oit.unc.edu, www-html@www0.cern.ch
> I have two ideas which I would like to get some feedback on. > [...] The second is to implement intelligent pre-fetching for the web. > > You might be interested in looking at Venkata Padmanabhan's MS > thesis from UC Berkeley, available as > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~padmanab/papers/masters-tr.ps > Venkat used a trace-based simulation to investigate the potential > performance of prefetching. Some of this work was done under my > supervision. > > Apparently some people at Boston University have done similar work, > since their CS technical Reports page > http://cs-www.bu.edu/techreports/Home.html > lists > 95-011 > Azer Bestavros ; Carlos Cunha. > A Prefetching Protocol Using Client Speculation for the WWW, > May 8, 1995. > However, clicking on the link to this report yields: "Error 403 > Forbidden - by rule" and I have not been able to obtain a copy. > > -Jeff We've also been looking at Web prefetching, using server-side speculation. References are listed on our Web pages: http://www.isi.edu/lowlat/ Notably "Defining 'High Speed Protocols, Five Challenges & and Example That Survives the Challenges," J. Touch, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Applications Enabling Gigabit Networks, Vol. 13, No. 5, June 1995, pp. 828-835. "An Experiment in Latency Reduction,", J. Touch and D. Farber IEEE Infocom 1994. We found that server speculation would decrease latency by 2/3, to 0.7 RTT (yes, below the speed of light) by increasing the BW by 7x. Note that this RTT is an average per page - it still takes 1 RTT for the first page... Joe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Touch touch@isi.edu ISI / Project Leader, ATOMIC-2 http://www.isi.edu/~touch USC / Research Assistant Prof. http://www.isi.edu/atomic2
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