The demand for internet access has been characterized by an exponential growth. The introduction of high-speed satellite communications systems providing direct-to-home internet is a response to this increasing demand. However such systems use geo-synchronous satellites and suffer from high latency. Currently, the most popular application layer protocols for the World Wide Web (WWW) are HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1. Since HTTP is a request-response protocol, there are performance issues with using it over high-delay links such as links involving Geo-synchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites. Such usage leads to severely increased user perceived latency which makes "internet browsing" a cumbersome experience. In this paper we investigate this problem and analyze a mechanism to reduce this user-perceived delay.
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Cumulative Caching for Reduced User-Perceived Latency for WWW Transfers on Networks with Satellite Links
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Conference Paper›Invited and refereed articles in conference proceedings
Authored by:
Bhalekar, Aniruddha., Baras, John S.
Conference date:
August 1-6, 2004
Conference:
Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources: First International Workshop, SAPIR 2004, pp. 179-186
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