A Client Based Prefetching Implementation for the World-Wide-Web

MARTIN MROZ
(zorm@cs.bu.edu)

Computer Science Department
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215

January 16, 1996

Abstract


Based on previous work in [1] and [3]. Our implementation is of client-side speculative prefetching, based on individual user histories, to improve service access time. This work will explain in detail the code that was written to implement the algorithm, as well as the various additions and changes to our Mosaic 2.4 client to allow prefetching to take place. We will then conclude with possible future modifications to our client that might remove some of the current limitations and yield better performance. The analysis of the performance of this prefetching implementation will be left to a future paper.


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