A survey of Web cache replacement strategies

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 374-398

  Podlipnig, Stefan ^a   Böszörmenyi, Laszlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Replacement strategies; Web caching

Indexed keywords

CACHE REPLACEMENT; REPLACEMENT STRATEGIES; WEB CACHING;

BANDWIDTH; CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 3042767592     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/954339.954341     Document Type: Review

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