Mauricio
On Wed, 29 Nov 1995 touch@ISI.EDU wrote:
> > I have two ideas which I would like to get some feedback on.
> > [...] The second is to implement intelligent pre-fetching for the web.
> >
> > You might be interested in looking at Venkata Padmanabhan's MS
> > thesis from UC Berkeley, available as
> > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~padmanab/papers/masters-tr.ps
> > Venkat used a trace-based simulation to investigate the potential
> > performance of prefetching. Some of this work was done under my
> > supervision.
> >
> > Apparently some people at Boston University have done similar work,
> > since their CS technical Reports page
> > http://cs-www.bu.edu/techreports/Home.html
> > lists
> > 95-011
> > Azer Bestavros ; Carlos Cunha.
> > A Prefetching Protocol Using Client Speculation for the WWW,
> > May 8, 1995.
> > However, clicking on the link to this report yields: "Error 403
> > Forbidden - by rule" and I have not been able to obtain a copy.
> >
> > -Jeff
>
> We've also been looking at Web prefetching, using server-side
> speculation.
>
> References are listed on our Web pages:
>
> http://www.isi.edu/lowlat/
>
> Notably
> "Defining 'High Speed Protocols, Five Challenges & and Example
> That Survives the Challenges," J. Touch, IEEE JSAC Special
> Issue on Applications Enabling Gigabit Networks, Vol. 13, No.
> 5, June 1995, pp. 828-835.
>
> "An Experiment in Latency Reduction,", J. Touch and D. Farber
> IEEE Infocom 1994.
>
> We found that server speculation would decrease latency by 2/3, to 0.7
> RTT (yes, below the speed of light) by increasing the BW by 7x. Note
> that this RTT is an average per page - it still takes 1 RTT for the
> first page...
>
> Joe
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