TY - GEN
T1 - A proxy server experiment
T2 - 7th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 1998
AU - Howard, Richard
AU - Jansen, Bernard J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1998 IEEE.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - With the growing reliance on connectivity to the World-Wide Web (Web), many organizations have been experiencing trouble servicing their users with adequate access and response time. Increase bandwidth on more connections to the Web can relieve the access problem, but this approach may not decrease the access time. Additionally, increase bandwidth comes at greatly increased cost. Therefore, many organizations have turned to the use of proxy servers. A proxy server is a Web server that caches Internet resources for re-use by a set of client machines. The performance increases of proxy servers has been widely reported; however, we could not locate any test of proxy server performance. Given the exponential growth of the Web in just the last year, we wondered if this would have an effect on the performance of proxy servers. Therefore, we conducted a 14-day proxy server experiment. The results of our experiment showed that the proxy servers actually decreased performance, i.e. access time. We review this experiment, analyze why the proxy server failed to decrease the access time, and draw conclusions on the changing nature of the Web and its impact on proxy servers.
AB - With the growing reliance on connectivity to the World-Wide Web (Web), many organizations have been experiencing trouble servicing their users with adequate access and response time. Increase bandwidth on more connections to the Web can relieve the access problem, but this approach may not decrease the access time. Additionally, increase bandwidth comes at greatly increased cost. Therefore, many organizations have turned to the use of proxy servers. A proxy server is a Web server that caches Internet resources for re-use by a set of client machines. The performance increases of proxy servers has been widely reported; however, we could not locate any test of proxy server performance. Given the exponential growth of the Web in just the last year, we wondered if this would have an effect on the performance of proxy servers. Therefore, we conducted a 14-day proxy server experiment. The results of our experiment showed that the proxy servers actually decreased performance, i.e. access time. We review this experiment, analyze why the proxy server failed to decrease the access time, and draw conclusions on the changing nature of the Web and its impact on proxy servers.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICCCN.1998.998824
DO - 10.1109/ICCCN.1998.998824
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51349134847
T3 - Proceedings - 7th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 1998
SP - 646
EP - 649
BT - Proceedings - 7th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 1998
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 15 October 1998 through 15 October 1998
ER -