About the Heterogeneity of Web Prefetching Performance Key Metrics

Web prefetching techniques have pointed to be especially important to reduce web latencies and, consequently, an important set of works can be found in the open literature. But, in general, it is not possible to do a fair comparison among the proposed prefetching techniques due to three main reasons: i) the underlying baseline system where prefetching is applied differs widely among the studies; ii) the workload used in the presented experiments is not the same; iii) different performance key metrics are used to evaluate their benefits. This paper focuses on the third reason. Our main concern is to identify which the main meaningful indexes are when studying the performance of different prefetching techniques. For this purpose, we propose a taxonomy based in three categories, which permits us to identify analogies and differences among the indexes commonly used. In order to check, in a more formal way, the relation between them, we run experiments and estimate statistically the correla...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: INTELLCOMM
• Authors: Josep Domènech, Julio Sahuquillo, José A. Gil, Ana Pont
• Keywords: Communications, INTELLCOMM 2004, Key Metric, Performance Key Metrics, Web Prefetching Techniques