Design and Implementation of Server Side Web Proxy Caching Algorithm

Abstract: Due to the increase in popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW) has introduced new issues such as Internet traffic and bandwidth consumption. Recently, much research has focused on improving Web performance by reducing the bandwidth consumption and WWW traffic. Web proxy caching is a well-known technique for reducing access latencies and bandwidth consumption. As in other caching systems, a replacement policy is necessary for determining when and what to evict from the cache, and many proxy caching algorithms have been earlier. In this paper, we propose a server side web caching algorithm in oreder to overcome various issues of web proxy caching such as load balancing, transparency, scalabil- ity and cache miss. Web proxy caching is a well-known strategy for improving performance of Web-based systems by keep- ing Web objects that are likely to be used in the near future closer to the client.

Keywords: Web proxy, Bandwidth, Cache, Server Side Web Caching Algorithm, LFU, LRU