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Latency Tolerance/Reduction for WWW Systems

This project deals with exploiting caching and prefetching mechanisms to improve performance of World Wide Web Systems. To decide on the most effective cache placement, trace visualization tools are also being developed.

Members

Staff :

  • Evangelos Markatos Assistant Prof. of Computer Science
  • Catherine Chronaki, Software Engineer

  • Students :

  • Athanasios Papathanasiou
  • Nektarios Papadakakis
  • Relevant Publications:

  • Nektarios Papadakakis, Evangelos Markatos , and Athanasios E. Papathanassiou: Palantir: A Visualization Tool for the World Wide Web, In Proceedings of INET' 98 (The Internet Summit), Geneva, Switzerland, July 1998.
  • Evangelos Markatos , Catherine E. Chronaki : A Top-10 Approach to Prefetching on the Web, In Proceedings of INET' 98 (The Internet Summit), Geneva, Switzerland, July 1998.
  • Evangelos Markatos , Catherine E. Chronaki : A Top-10 Approach to Prefetching on the Web, Technical Report No. 173, August 1996, ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Available: compressed postscript (300 KBytes).
  • Evangelos P. Markatos : Main Memory Caching of Web Documents Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, volume 28, issues 7-11, pages 893-906, 1996. Also appeared in Proceedings of the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, Paris, France, May 1996.
  • Evangelos P. Markatos , Catherine E. Chronaki : Caching, Prefetching and Coherence in the World Wide Web In ERCIM News No.25 - April 1996.
  • Tools:

    Palantir: real-time web traffic visualization
    USEwebNET: Combining USENET and the WEB

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    Last Modification: July 1995. Page Compiled by:

    Evangelos P. Markatos,
    Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Group (AVG),
    Institute of Computer Science, FORTH,
    Science and Technology Park of Crete,
    Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385,
    GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
    E-mail: markatos@ics.forth.gr Tel: +30 (81) 39 16 55, Fax: +30 (81) 39 16 61