WWW Performance

This project deals with exploiting caching and prefetching mechanisms to reduce the high latency of the world-wide Web.

Members

Staff :

• Evangelos Markatos, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Manolis Katevenis, Professor of Computer Science
• Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, Researcher of Computer Science

Students:

• Michail Flouris
• Athanasios Papathanasiou
• Nektarios Papadakakis

Relevant Publications:

• Evangelos P. Markatos, Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos, Michail D. Flouris, and Manolis G.H. Katevenis: Web-Conscious Storage Management for Web Proxies. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 735-748, Dec 2002.
• Evangelos P. Markatos: On Caching Search Engine Query Results. Computer Communications, Elsevier Science, to appear. Available: compressed postscript (33 KBytes).
• Evangelos P. Markatos, Manolis G.H. Katevenis, Dionisis Pnevmatikatos, and Michail Flouris: Secondary Storage Management for Web Proxies. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS99), 1999, pp. 93-104, Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on the Internet. Available: compressed PostScript (40 KB).
• Evangelos P. Markatos Athanasios E. Papathanasiou, and Nektarios Papadakakis Visualizing Traffic on the World Wide Web. WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications and Issues. 1(2), pp. 57-65, April-June 1999.
• Evangelos P. Markatos: A Cash-based Approach to Caching Web Documents, Technical Report 230, ICS-FORTH, Aug. 1998. Available: compressed postscript (76 KBytes).
• Nektarios Papadakakis, Evangelos Markatos, and Athanasios E. Papathanassiou: Palantir: A Visualization Tool for the World Wide Web, In Proceedings of INET' 98 (The Internet Summit), Geneva, Switzerland, July 1998.
• Evangelos Markatos, Catherine E. Chronaki: A Top-10 Approach to Prefetching on the Web, In Proceedings of INET' 98 (The Internet Summit), Geneva, Switzerland, July 1998.
• Evangelos Markatos, Catherine E. Chronaki: A Top-10 Approach to Prefetching on the Web, Technical Report No. 173, August 1996, ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Available: compressed postscript (300 KBytes).
• Evangelos P. Markatos: Main Memory Caching of Web Documents Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, volume 28, issues 7-11, pages 893-906, 1996. Also appeared in Proceedings of the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, Paris, France, May 1996.
• Evangelos P. Markatos, Catherine E. Chronaki: Caching, Prefetching and Coherence in the World Wide Web In ERCIM News No.25 - April 1996.

Tools:

• Palantir: real-time web traffic visualization
  USEwebNET: Combining USENET and the WEB
• Foxy Web Cache: Source code for our high-performance web cache prototype (GPL Licenced).
  Foxy Web Cache v0.70. (for Solaris and Linux)