Compression and delta-encoding [18] of web resources is a well-understood, but infrequently used, technology. Two existing proposals [8, 22] to extend delta-encoding beyond successive versions of the same resource suffer from a requirement that the parties participating in the delta-encoding process coordinate knowledge of their caches. We make a case for more general mechanisms, and propose a distributed approach that does not require advance coordination.
By: Frederick Douglis, Arun K. Iyengar, Kiem-Phong Vo
Published in: RC22514 in 2002
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