초록
Since most of the existing web cache structures are static, they cannot support the dynamic request change of he current WWW users well. Users re generally using multiple programs in several different windows with rapid preference change within a relatively short period of time. We develop a network-path based algorithm. It organizes a cache according to the network path of the requested URLs and build a network cache farm where caches are logically connected with each other and each cache has its own preference over certain network paths. The algorithm has been implemented and tested in a real site. The performance results show that the new algorithm outperforms the existing static algorithms in the hit ratio and response time dramatically.
