Caching Readings for CSc 450: Web Technologies and Performance

Note that some of these are links to Postscript or PDF and you will need the appropriate viewers.

Surveys

Brian D. Davison, 2001. A Web Caching Primer. IEEE Internet Computing, 5(4):38-45. [Not really a survey, but a good introduction.]
Jia Wang, 1999. A Survey of Web Caching Schemes for the Internet. ACM Computer Communication Review, 29(5):36--46.
Jeffrey Mogul, 2000. Squeezing More Bits Out of HTTP Caches. IEEE Network, May/June, pages 6-14.
Greg Barish and Katia Obraczka, 2000. World Wide Web Caching: Trends and Techniques. IEEE Communications Magazine, 38(5):178-184.

Validation/Invalidation (Consistency)

WCIP: Web Cache Invalidation Protocol Draft Requirements for a Resource Update Protocol, Draft Web Cache Invalidation Protocol.
ESI: Edge Side Includes Technical Specification of Edge Architecture and Invalidation Protocol.
Zongming Fei, 2001. A Novel Approach to Managing Consistency in Content Distribution Networks. Proc. of Sixth Int'l Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution.
Chengjie Liu and Pei Cao, 1998. Maintaining strong cache consistency for the world-wide Web. IEEE Transactions on Computers.

Replacement Algorithms

Pei Cao and Sandi Irani, 1997. Cost-aware WWW proxy caching algorithms. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS'97).
Junho Shim, Peter Scheuermann, and Radek Vingralek, 1999. Proxy Cache Design: Algorithms, Implementation and Performance, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.