New connection-oriented networking technologies can provide quality-of-service guaranteed network connectivity required by some web-based applications. In this paper, we present a...
Replication and caching mechanisms are often employed to enhance the performance of Web applications. In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of state-...
Abstract. In recent years, protocols have been developed to ensure secure communications over the Internet, e.g., the secure sockets layer (SSL) and secure electronic transaction (...
This work focuses on characterizing information about Web resources and server responses that is relevant to Web caching. The approach is to study a set of URLs at a variety of si...
The performance of information retrieval on the Web is heavily influenced by the organization of Web pages, user navigation patterns, and guidance-related functions. Having observ...