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.