Approaches to Reducing Object Retrieval Latency in the World Wide Web

Abstract

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web (WWW) brings along several problems. Among the problems, the most serious the user experienced is the increasing amount of time he/she has to wait for the retrieval of WWW objects due to increased network bandwidth usage and server overload. In this paper, we propose some approaches to reducing the latency for retrieving WWW objects：persistent connections and a new of protocol to access the proxy server. A prototype of the proposed approaches has been implemented and the performance measurement results show significant improvements in terms of network latency and robustness over the original schemes.