This paper provides an overview of techniques for improving Web performance. For improving server performance, multiple Web servers can be used in combination with efficient load balancing techniques. We also discuss how the choice of server architecture affects performance. We examine content distribution networks (CDN's) and the routing techniques that they use. While Web performance can be improved using caching, a key problem with caching is consistency. We present different techniques for achieving varying forms of cache consistency.
By: Arun K. Iyengar, Erich M. Nahum, Anees A. Shaikh, Renu Tewari
Published in: Communication Systems, State of the Art. IFIP 17th World Computer Congress - TC6 Stream on Communication Systems. Norwell, MA, Kluwer, p.95-126 in 2002
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