Merging Client And Server Profiles On The World-Wide Web

MS Thesis Presentation

Joel Sommers
WPI Computer Science Department
Advisor: Prof. Craig Wills
Reader: Prof. George Heineman

Friday, April 25, 1997
11 a.m. - 12 noon
Fuller Labs 320

This thesis explores how client and server profiles can be used to improve access to the Web. Clients and servers on the Web currently act in relative isolation to one another. Clients know about caching requirements, multimedia display capabilities, network connectivity, and user browsing patterns, while servers know about popular documents and access patterns. By exchanging information, benefits can be gained in areas of performance and usability.

A general architecture for supporting client and server profiles is presented. A profile may include many parameters. The focus has been narrowed to how document prefetching can be improved through clients and servers working together.

Results of trace-driven simulations suggest that a prefetching scheme that involves using information from both client and server could be effective in reducing access latency without significantly increasing network and server load. Results of these tests are presented and discussed.

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