A survey on dynamic Web content generation and delivery techniques

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 943-960

  Ravi, Jayashree ^a   Yu, Zhifeng ^a   Shi, Weisong ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Content distribution; Dynamic Web content; Personalised Web content

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; BUSINESS FUNCTIONS; CONTENT DELIVERY; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; CONTINUOUS INNOVATION; DELIVERY TECHNIQUES; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; DYNAMIC CONTENT; DYNAMIC PAGES; DYNAMIC WEB CONTENT; FUTURE TRENDS; GENERATION PROCESS; INNOVATIVE RESEARCH; KEY FACTORS; NETWORK TRAFFIC; ON DYNAMICS; PERSONALISED WEB CONTENT; ROAD-MAPS; WEB APPLICATION; WEB CACHING; WEB TECHNOLOGIES;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INNOVATION; SERVERS; SURVEYS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CURRICULA;

EID: 67649505427     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

References (91)

1. Amazon Web Service 〈http://aws.amazon.com/〉.
2. Aggarwal A, Rabinovich M. Performance of dynamic replication schemes for an internet hosting service, 1998 〈citeseer.ist.psu.edu/aggarwal98performance.html〉.
3. Akamai Technologies Inc. 〈http://www.akamai.com/〉.
4. Altinel M, Bornhoevd C, Krishnamurthy S, Mohan C, Pirahesh H, Reinwald B. Cache tables: paving the way for an adaptive database cache. In: Proceedings of the 29th international conference on very large data bases, September 2003 〈http://www.vldb.org/conf/2003/papers/S22P01.pdf〉.
5. Alzoubi HA, Lee S, Rabinovich M, Spatscheck O, der Merwe JV. Anycast CDNs revisited. In: WWW '08: proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web. New York: ACM; 2008. p. 277-86.
6. Amiri K, Park S, Tewari R, Padmanabhan S. Dbproxy: a dynamic data cache for Web applications. In: ICDE04: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on data engineering, 2003. p. 821-31.
7. Amza C, Chanda A, Cecchet E, Cox A, Elnikety S, Gil R, Marguerite J, Rajamani K, Zwaenepoel W. Specification and implementation of dynamic Web site benchmarks, 2002 〈citeseer.ist.psu.edu/amza02specification.html〉.
8. Amza C, Soundararajan G, Cecchet E. Transparent caching with strong consistency in dynamic content Web sites. In: ICS '05: Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on supercomputing. New York: ACM Press; 2005. p. 264-73.
9. Androutsellis-Theotokis S., and Spinellis D. A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies. ACM Computing Surveys 36 4 (2004) 335-371
10. Awadallah A, Rosenblum M. The vMatrix: a network of virtual machine monitors for dynamic content distribution. In: Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Web caching and content distribution (WCW'02), August 2002.
11. Barbir A, Penno R, Chen R, Hofmann M, Orman H. An Architecture for Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES), Internet RFC3835 〈http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3835.txt〉.
12. BitTorrent-Peer to peer file sharing application 〈http://www.bittorrent.com〉.
13. Beck A, Hofmann M. Enabling the internet to deliver content-oriented services. In: Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Web caching and content distribution (WCW'01), June 2001 〈http://www.cs.bu.edu/techreports/2001-017-wcw01-proceedings/107_beck.pdf〉.
14. Bent L, Rabinovich GM, Voelker Z. Xiao, Characterization of a large Web site population with implications for content delivery. In: WWW '04: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web. New York: ACM Press; 2004. p. 522-33.
15. Breslau L, Cao P, Fan L, Phillips G, Shenker S. Web caching and zipf-like distributions: evidence and implications. In: Proceedings of IEEE conference on computer communications (INFOCOM'99), 1999. p. 126-34 〈http://www.research.att.com/~breslau/papers/zipf.ps.gz〉.
16. Brodie D., Gupta A., and Shi W. Accelerating dynamic Web content delivery using keyword-based fragment detection. Journal of Web Engineering 4 1 (2005) 79-99
17. Candan KS, Li W-S, Qiong W-P, Agrawal HD. Enabling dynamic content caching for database-driven Web sites. In: Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data, 2001 〈http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=375736〉.
18. Cannataro M, Cuzzocrea A, Mastroianni C, Ortale R, Pugliese A. Modeling adaptive hypermedia with an object-oriented approach and xml. In: 2nd international workshop on Web dynamics, 2002.
19. Cao P, Zhang J, Beach K. Active cache: caching dynamic contents on the Web. In: Proceedings of IFIP international conference on distributed systems platforms and open distributed processing, 1998. p. 373-88 〈http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~cao/papers/active-cache.ps〉.
20. Castro P, Giraud F, Konuru R, Ponzo J, White J. Before-commit client state management services for ajax applications. Hotweb 2006;0:1-12.
21. Challenger J, Iyengar A, Dantzig P. A scalable system for consistently caching dynamic Web data. In: Proceedings of IEEE conference on computer communications (INFOCOM'99), March 1999.
22. Challenger J, Iyengar A, Witting K, Ferstat C, Reed P. A publishing system for efficiently creating dynamic Web content. In: Proceedings of IEEE conference on computer communications (INFOCOM'00), March 2000.
23. Chen H, Iyengar A. A tiered system for serving differentiated content. World Wide Web: Internet and Web information systems, vol. 6(4), December 2003 〈http://www.research.ibm.com/people/i/iyengar/wwwj03.pdf〉.
24. Davis A, Parikh J, Weihl WE. Edgecomputing: extending enterprise applications to the edge of the internet. In: WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on alternate track papers and posters. New York: ACM Press; 2004. p. 180-87.
25. Domenech J., Gil J., Sahuquillo J., and Pont A. Ddg: an efficient prefetching algorithm for current Web generation. Hotweb (2006) 1-12
26. Douglis F, Haro A, Rabinovich M. HPP:HTML macro-pre-processing to support dynamic document caching, In: Proceedings of the 1st USENIX symposium on Internet technologies and systems (USITS'97), December 1997. p. 83-94 〈http://www.douglis.org/fred/work/papers/hpp.pdf〉.
27. Feldmann A, Caceres R, Douglis F, Glass G, Rabinovich M. Performance of Web proxy caching in heterogeneous bandwidth environments. In: Proceedings of IEEE conference on computer communications (INFOCOM'99), March 1999. p. 107-16. 〈http://www.douglis.org/fred/work/papers/hetproxcache.pdf〉.
28. Fortino G., and Mastroianni C. Special section: enhancing content networks with P2P, grid and agent technologies. Future Gener. Comp. Syst. 24 3 (2008) 177-179
29. Fox A, Gribble S, Chawathe Y, Brewer EA. Adapting to network and client variation using infrastructural proxies: lessons and prespectives, IEEE Personal Communication 1998 〈http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gribble/papers/adapt.ps.zip〉.
30. Fu X, Shi W, Akkerman A, Karamcheti V. CANS: composable, adaptive network services infrastructure In: Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX symposium on Internet technologies and systems (USITS'01), March 2001. p. 135-46.
31. Google Inc. 〈http://www.google.com〉.
32. Gadde S, Rabinovich M, Chase J. Reduce, reuse, recycle: an approach to building large internet caches. In: Workshop on hot topics in operating systems, 1997 〈http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/8247/http:zSzzSzwww.cs.duke.eduzSz~chasezSzcps216zSzcrisp.pdf/gadde97reduce.pdf〉.
33. Gao L., Dahlin M., Nayate A., Zheng J., and Iyengar A. Improving availability and performance with application-specific data replication. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 17 1 (2005) 2005
34. Groothuyse T, Sivasubramanian S, Pierre G. Globetp: template-based database replication for scalable Web applications. In: WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web. New York: ACM; 2007. p. 301-10.
35. Gupta R, Ramamritham K. Optimized query planning of continuous aggregation queries in dynamic data dissemination networks. In: WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web. New York: ACM; 2007. p. 321-30.
36. Hibernate-Relational persistence for Java and .NET 〈http://www.hibernate.org〉.
37. IBM Corp. Websphere platform 〈http://www.ibm.com/websphere〉.
38. Inderjeet Singh M.J., and Stearns B. Designing enterprise applications with the J2EE platform. 2nd ed. (2002), Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA
39. Inria EC. C-jdbc: a middleware framework for database clustering 〈citeseer.ist.psu.edu/682076.html〉.
40. Kazaa-Distributed peer to peer file sharing service 〈http://www.kazaa.com〉.
41. Karbhari P, Rabinovich M, Xiao Z, Douglis F. Acdn: a content delivery network for applications. In: SIGMOD '02: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data. New York: ACM Press; 2002. p. 619-19.
42. Karve A, Kimbrel T, Pacifici G, Spreitzer M, Steinder M, Sviridenko M, Tantawi A. Dynamic placement for clustered Web applications. In: WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web. New York: ACM; 2006. p. 595-604.
43. Kubiatowicz J, Bindel D, Chen Y, Eaton P, Geels D, Gummadi R, Rhea S, Weatherspoon H, Weimer W, Wells C, Zhao B. Oceanstore: an architecture for global-scale persistent storage. In: Proceedings of ACM ASPLOS, November 2000.
44. Labrinidis A, Roussopoulos N. Balancing performance and data freshness in Web database servers. In: Proceedings of the 2004 international workshop on information quality in information systems, September 2003 〈http://www.db.cs.cmu.edu/Seminar/Summer2003/aug27〉.
45. ke Larson P, Goldstein J, Zhou J. Transparent mid-tier database caching in sql server. In: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data, June 2004 〈http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=872848〉.
46. Li W-S, Hsiung W-P, Po O, Hino K, Candan KS, Agrawal D. Challenges and practices in deploying Web acceleration solutions for distributed enterprise systems. In: WWW '04: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web. New York: ACM Press; 2004. p. 297-308.
47. Li W-S, Po O, Hsiung W-P, Candan KS, Agrawal D. Engineering and hosting adaptive freshness-sensitive Web applications on data centers. In: WWW '03: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web. New York: ACM Press; 2003. p. 587-98.
48. Liang Z., and Shi W. Enforcing cooperative resource sharing in untrusted peer-to-peer environment. ACM J Mobile Netw Appl (MONET) 10 6 (2005) 771-783
49. Liu F, Zhao Y, Wang W, Makaroff D. Database server workload characterization in an e-commerce environment. In: MASCOTS 2004: Proceedings of the IEEE computer society's 12th annual international symposium on modeling, analysis, and simulation of computer and telecommunications systems. Silver Spring, MD: IEEE Computer Society, 2004. p. 475-83.
50. Luo Q, Krishnamurthy S, Mohan C, Pirahesh H, Woo H, Lindsay BG, Naughton JF. Middle-tier database caching for e-business. In: SIGMOD '02: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data. New York: ACM Press; 2002. p. 600-11.
51. Mahdavi M, Shepherd J. Enabling dynamic content caching in Web portals. In: RIDE '04: Proceedings of the 14th international workshop on research issues on data engineering: Web services for E-commerce and E-government applications (RIDE'04). Silver Spring, MD: IEEE Computer Society; 2004. p. 129-36.
52. Manjhi A, Ailamaki A, Maggs BM, Mowry TC, Olston C, Tomasic A. Simultaneous scalability and security for data-intensive Web applications. In: Proceedings of SIGMOD, 2006. p. 241-52.
53. Manjhi A., Gibbons P.B., Ailamaki A., Garrod C., Maggs B.M., Mowry T.C., Olston C., Tomasic A., and Yu H. Invalidation clues for database scalability services. ICDE (2007) 316-325
54. Mannan M, van Oorschot PC. Privacy-enhanced sharing of personal content on the Web. In: WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web. New York: ACM; 2008. p. 487-96.
55. Mastoli V, Desai V, Shi W. SEE: a service execution environment for edge services. In: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE workshop on internet applications (WIAPP'03), June 2003.
56. Mikhailov M, Wills CE. Change and relationship-driven content caching, distribution and assembly. Technical Report WPI-CS-TR-01-03, Computer Science Department, WPI, March 2001 〈http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/papers/tr01-03.pdf〉.
57. Mohan C. Caching technologies for Web applications. VLDB '01: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on very large data bases (2001), Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, CA 726
58. Moshchuk A., Gribble S.D., and Levy H.M. Flashproxy: transparently enabling rich Web content via remote execution. MobiSys '08: Proceeding of the 6th international conference on mobile systems, applications, and services (2008), ACM, New York 81-93
59. Myers A, Chuang J, Hengartner U, Xie Y, Zhang W, Zhang H. A secure and publisher-centric Web caching infrastructure. In: Proceedings of IEEE conference on computer communications (INFOCOM'01), April 2001.
60. Naaman M, Garcia-Molina H, Paepcke A. Evaluation of delivery techniques for dynamic Web content, Poster. In: Proceedings of 12th international World Wide Web conference, May 2003 〈http://www2003.org/cdrom/papers/poster/p268/Poster.htm〉.
61. Napster Inc. 〈http://www.napster.com〉.
62. ORacle Corp. Oracle application server 〈http://www.oracle.com/appserver/index.html〉.
63. Padala P., Shin K.G., Zhu X., Uysal M., Wang Z., Singhal S., Merchant A., and Salem K. Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments. SIGOPS Oper Syst Rev 41 3 (2007) 289-302
64. Pathan M., Buyya R., and Vakali A. CDNs: state of the art, insights, and imperatives. Content delivery networks (2008), Springer, Germany
65. Pierre G, van Steen M. Globule: a collaborative content delivery network. IEEE Commun Magazine 2006;44(8):127-33.
66. Plattner C, Alonso G. Ganymed: scalable replication for transactional Web applications. In: Middleware '04: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware. New York: Springer; 2004. p. 155-74. 〈http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1045658.1045671〉.
67. Rabinovich M., and Spatscheck O. Web caching and replication (2002), Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA
68. Rabinovich M, Xiao Z, Douglis F, Kamanek C. Moving edge side includes to the real edge-the clients. In: Proceedings of the 4th USENIX symposium on Internet technologies and systems (USITS'03), March 2003.
69. Ramaswamy L., Iyengar A., Liu L., and Douglis F. Automatic fragment detection in dynamic Web pages and its impact on caching. IEEE Trans Knowl Data Eng 17 6 (2005) 859-874
70. Ravi J., Shi W., and Xu C. Personalized email management at network edges. IEEE Internet Comput. 9 2 (2005)
71. Ricadela, A., Microsoft goes alive 〈http://www.informationweek.com〉, November 2005.
72. Saroiu S, Gummadi KP, Dunn RJ, Gribble SD, Levy HM. An analysis of internet content delivery systems. In: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX symposium on operating systems, design and implementation, December 2002.
73. Shi W., Collins E., and Karamcheti V. Modeling object characteristics of dynamic Web content. J Parallel Distrib Comput 63 10 (2003) 963-980
74. Shi W, Karamcheti V. CONCA: an architecture for consistent nomadic content access. In: Workshop on cache, coherence, and consistency (WC3'01), June 2001.
75. Sivasubramanian S, Pierre G, van Steen M. Replicating Web applications on-demand. In: Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on services computing, September 2004.
76. Sivasubramanian S, Pierre G, van Steen M. Autonomic data placement strategies for update-intensive Web applications. In: Proceedings of the international workshop on advanced architectures and algorithms for Internet delivery and applications, June 2005 〈http://www.globule.org/publi/ADPSUIWA_aaaidea2005.html〉.
77. Sivasubramanian S., Pierre G., vanSteen M., and Alonso G. Analysis of caching and replication strategies for Web applications. IEEE Internet Comput 11 1 (2007) 60-66
78. Skype-Peer to peer voice service 〈http://www.skype.com〉.
79. Souders S. High performance Web sites. Queue 6 6 (2008) 30-37
80. Soundararajan G., and Amza C. Using semantic information to improve transparent query caching for dynamic content Web sites. DEEC (2005) 132-138
81. Timesten team. Middle-tier database caching for e-business. In: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data, September 2002 〈http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=564691.564761〉.
82. Tolia N., and Satyanarayanan M. Consistency-preserving caching of dynamic database content. WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web (2007), ACM, New York 311-320
83. Tsimelzon M. ESI language specification, 1.0 2000 〈http://www.esi.org〉.
84. Wei Z, Dejun J, Pierre G, Chi C-H, van Steen M, Service-oriented data denormalization for scalable Web applications. In: Proceedings of the 17th international World Wide Web conference, April 2008 〈http://www.globule.org/publi/SODDSWA_www2008.html〉.
85. Wolman A, Voelker GM, Sharma N, Cardwell N, Karlin A, Levy HM. On the scale and performance of cooperative Web proxy caching. In: Proceedings of 17th ACM symposium on operating systems principles (SOSP), December 1999. p. 16-31.
86. Yahoo Inc. 〈http://www.yahoo.com〉.
87. Yagoub K, Florescu D, Issarny V, Valduriez P. Caching strategies for data-intensive Web sites. In: Proceedings of the 26th international conference on very large data bases, May 2000 〈http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&id=672020〉.
88. Yuan C., Chen Y., and Zhang Z. Evaluation of edge caching/offloading for dynamic content delivery. IEEE Trans Knowl Data Eng 16 11 (2004) 1411-1423
89. Zhou J., and Yang T. Selective early request termination for busy internet services. WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web (2006), ACM, New York 605-614
90. Zhu H, Yang T. Class-based cache management for dynamic Web content. In: Proceedings of IEEE conference on computer communications (INFOCOM'01), April 2001 〈http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/projects/swala/cache2001.ps〉.
91. Zhu Z, Mao Y, Shi W. Workload characterization of uncacheable http content. In: Web engineering: 4th international conference, ICWE. Berlin: Springer GmbH; 2004. p. 319-95.