Prefetching Readings for CSc 450: Web Technologies and Performance

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Prefetching

• Thomas M. Kroeger, Darrell D. E. Long, and Jeffrey C. Mogul, 1997. Exploring the Bounds of Web Latency Reduction from Caching and Prefetching. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS'97).
• Mark Crovella and Paul Barford, 1998. The Network Effects of Prefetching. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM.
• Li Fan and Pei Cao and Quinn Jacobson, 1999. Web Prefetching Between Low-Bandwidth Clients and Proxies: Potential and Performance. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS.
• Dan Duchamp, 1999. Prefetching Hyperlinks. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS'99).
• Brian D. Davison and Vincenzo Liberatore, 2000. Pushing Politely: Improving Web responsiveness one packet at a time. Performance Evaluation Review, 28(2): 43-49. Presented at the PAWS Workshop.
• Edith Cohen and Haim Kaplan, 2000. Prefetching the means for document transfer: A new approach for reducing Web latency. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM.
• Brian D. Davison, 2001. Assertion: Prefetching With GET Is Not Good. Proc. of Sixth Int'l Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution.
• Venkatarami et al, 2001. The potential costs and benefits of long-term prefetching for content distribution. Proc. of Sixth Int'l Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution. (OPTIONAL)