The overall increase in traffic on the World Wide Web is augmenting user-perceived
response times from popular Web sites, especially in conjunction with special events …

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 …

Growing main memory capacity has fueled the development of in-memory big data
management and processing. By eliminating disk I/O bottleneck, it is now possible to support …

The World Wide Web can be considered as a large distributed information system that
provides access to shared data objects. As one of the most popular applications currently …

We introduce PIC, a practical coordinate-based mechanism to estimate Internet network
distance (ie, round-trip delay or network hops). Network distance estimation is important in …

In this paper we explore the problem of Caching of Search Engine Query Results in order to
reduce the computing and I/O requirements needed to support the functionality of a search …

While scaling up to the enormous and growing Internet population with unpredictable usage
patterns, E-commerce applications face severe challenges in cost and manageability …

Web performance is a key differentiation among content providers. Snafus and slowdowns
at major web sites demonstrate the difficulty that companies face trying to scale to a large …

This article presents an analysis of five days of workload data from a large Web-based
shopping system. The multitier environment of this Web-based shopping system includes …

The present invention relates to data storage and more particularly to systems and methods
for achieving data consistency among multiple copies. 2. Description of the Related Art …