Title
Web Response Time and Proxy Caching
Abstract
It is critical to understand WWW latency in order to design better HTTP protocols. In this paper we characterize Web response time and examine effects of proxy caching on response time. We show that at least a quarter of the total elapsed time is spent in setting up TCP connections. We also characterize the effect of a user''s network bandwidth on response time. Average connection time from a client via a 33.6 K modem is two times longer than that from a client via switched Ethernet. Contrary to the typical thought about Web proxy caching, this study finds that a single stand alone proxy cache does not always reduce response time. Implications of these results to the HTTP-NG protocol and Web application design also are discussed in the paper.
Year
Venue
Field
1998
WebNet
Proxy (climate),Switched ethernet,Latency (engineering),Response time,Computer network,Real-time computing,Bandwidth (signal processing),Engineering,Hypertext Transfer Protocol,Reverse proxy,Technical report
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
4
0.56
References 
Authors
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Binzhang Liu1184.08
Ghaleb Abdulla2519150.23
Tommy Johnson3231.58
Edward A. Fox43966921.62