Web prefetching mechanisms have been proposed to benefit web users by hiding the download latencies. Nevertheless, to the knowledge of the authors, there is no attempt to compare...
The popularity of web objects, and by extension the popularity of the web sites, besides the appearance of clear footprints in user's accesses that show a considerable spatia...
Handoff latency results in packet losses and severe End-to-End TCP performance degradation as TCP, perceiving these losses as congestion, causes source throttling or retransmissio...
The rapid development of Internet has resulted in more and more multimedia in Web content. However, due to the limitation in the bandwidth and huge size of the multimedia data, us...
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...