Readings for CSc 450: Web Technologies and Performance

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Prefetching

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)

Modeling and Managing Change on the Web

Brian E. Brewington, George Cybenko, 2000. How dynamic is the web?. WWW9.
Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann, and Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jeffrey Mogul, 1997. Rate of Change and other Metrics: a Live Study of the World Wide Web. USITS'97.