In modern heterogeneous environments, such as mobile, pervasive and ad-hoc networks, architectures based on web services offer an attractive solution for effective communication a...
A popular technique to improve the scalability of a web based system is caching at proxy servers. Caching has the drawback that a cached page becomes stale when the page is update...
As dependence on the World Wide Web continues to grow, so does the need for businesses to have quantitative measures of the client perceived response times of their Web services. ...
We introduce a client-server toolkit called Sync Kit that demonstrates how client-side database storage can improve the performance of data intensive websites. Sync Kit is designe...
Edward Benson, Adam Marcus 0002, David R. Karger, ...
Although Web prefetching is regarded as an effective method to improve client access performance, the associated overhead prevents it from being widely deployed. Specifically, a ...