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    An Investigation of Load Balancing in a Distributed Web Caching System

    Year: 2015, 2015
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Plumley, Brandon Marcus, Thesis advisor (ths): Hurley, Richard, Degree committee member (dgc): McConnell, Sabine, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>With the exponential growth of the Internet, performance is an issue as bandwidth is often limited. A scalable solution to reduce the amount of bandwidth required is Web caching. Web caching (especially at the proxy-level) has been shown to be quite successful at addressing this issue. However as the number and needs of the clients grow, it becomes infeasible and inefficient to have just… more