Customer-oriented Policy for Proxy Management System

Abstract

A technology that has developed dually with the Internet is the proxy technology. Its main advantages are reducing network bandwidth usage, increasing availability of content providers, and reducing users’ response time. However, the implementation of the proxy still cannot serve well for a large number of customers since the ability of services is relied on the physical size of proxy itself. Customers might have to wait for a long time before receiving their requests or have to resubmit the requests repeatedly according that the requested information cannot be found in the cache. This paper is focused in the problem of increasing the hit rate of the proxy without using the very large volume of proxy cache, a transparent policy-based proxy system is proposed. The Customer-oriented policy is considered as a strategy to increase the object hit rate without high investment on the physical equipment.