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Proceedings
of the Sixth International Workshop on
Web Caching and Content Distribution
June 20-22, 2001
Sponsored by
Hosted by

Web and
InterNetworking Group
at Boston University
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Overview
The International Web Content Caching and Distribution Workshop (WCW)
is a premiere technical meeting for researchers and practitioners
interested in all aspects of content caching, distribution and delivery on
the Internet. The 2001 WCW meeting was held on the Boston University Campus.
Building on the successes of the five previous WCW meetings, WCW01 featured a
strong technical program and record participation from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. This report includes all the technical papers presented at
WCW'01.
Note: Proceedings of WCW'01 are published by Elsevier.
Hardcopies of these proceedings can be purchased through the workshop
organizers. As a service to the community, electronic copies of all WCW'01
papers are accessible through Technical Report BUCS-TR-2001-017, available
from the Boston University Computer
Science Technical Report Archives at http://www.cs.bu.edu/techreps.
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Table of Contents
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| Apropos
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Session 1: Content Delivery Networks I
Chair: Duane Wessels, Measurement Factory
 | "The Trickle-Down Effect: Web Caching and Server Request
Distribution", Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Syam Gadde,
Amin M. Vahdat |
 | "CDN Brokering", Alex Biliris, Chuck
Cranor, Fred Douglis,
Michael Rabinovich, Sandeep Sibal, Oliver Spatscheck, Walter Sturm |
 | Synopsis: "Web Service Scalability and Performance with
Optimising Intermediaries", Mark Nottingham |
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Session 2: Content Delivery Networks II
Chair: Jeff Chase, Duke University
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Panel 1: Resolved: Publish no more papers on
Web cache replacement policies
 | Moderator: Jeffrey Mogul, Compaq Western Research Lab |
 | Panelists: Martin Arlitt, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; Pei Cao,
Cisco Systems; Alex Rousskov, The Measurement Factory; Carey Williamson,
University of Saskatchewan |
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Session 3: Edge and Browser Services
Chair: Mike Dahlin, University of Texas
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Session 4: Architectures
Chair: Gary Tomlison, Cacheflow
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Panel 2: Content Distribution
Internetworking: Vital or Valueless?
 | Moderator: Mark Day, Cisco Systems |
 | Panelists: Lisa Amini,IBM; Brad Cain, Cereva; Fred Douglis,
AT&T; Dave Farber, Digital Island; Avi Freedman, Akamai; Phil
Rzewski, Inktomi |
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Session 5: Prefetching
Chair: Valentino Cavali, Terena
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Panel 3: Rule-Based Active Edge Services
 | Moderator: Micah Beck, University of Tennessee & Lokomo Systems |
 | Panelists: Markus Hofmann, Lucent Technologies; Wei-Ying Ma,
Microsoft Research China; Mark Nottingham, Akamai Technologies |
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Session 6: Workload Characterization
Chair: Mark Crovella, Boston University
 | "Thin-Client Web Access Patterns: Measurements from a
Cache-Busting Proxy", Terence Kelly |
 | "Analysis of Web Workloads Using the Bootstrap
Methodology", Johnson Lee, William Miniscalco, Meng Li, W. David
Shambroom, John Buford |
 | "Analyzing the Impact of Robots on Performance of Web Caching
Systems", V. Almeida, D. Menasce, R. Riedi, F. Peligrinelli, R.
Fonseca, W. Meira Jr. |
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Session 7: Performance Measurement
Chair: Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Session 8: Streaming Media Delivery
Chair: Abdelsalam Heddaya, Infolibria
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