Replication is a well-known technique to improve the accessibility of Web sites. It generally
offers reduced client latencies and increases a site's availability. However, applying …

This article presents a survey of recent advancements in application-layer overlay networks.
Some of the most important applications that have been proposed for overlays include …

The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing analyzes a broad array of technologies and
concerns related to the Internet, including corporate intranets. Fresh and insightful articles by …

Publisher Summary This chapter considers techniques for disseminating dynamic data, such
as stock prices and real-time weather information from sources to a set of repositories …

Proxy caching effectively reduces the network resources that Web services consume, while
minimizing user access latencies. Deploying Web caching proxies over the Internet is not …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses an efficient and resilient approach to filtering
and disseminating streaming data. It considers techniques for creating a resilient and …

Cache augmented SQL, CASQL, systems enhance the performance of simple operations
that read and write a small amount of data from big data. They do so by looking up the …

Intermediaries are software entities, deployed on hosts of the wireline and wireless network,
that mediate the interaction between clients and servers of the World Wide Web. In this …

The focus of our work is to design and build a dynamic data distribution system that is
coherence-preserving, ie the delivered data must preserve associated coherence …

Media content providers are exploring new distribution methods for media content. Internet
and portable media device playback have joined the ranks of broadcast and cable television …