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INTELLIGENT PREFETCHING AT A PROXY SERVER

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Sajid Hussain (sajid[at]ee.umanitoba.caa) nd Robert D.M cLeod
Intemet Innovation Center
Engineering, University of Manitoba.

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Abstarct

-Intelligent prefetchmg helps to reduce the
perceived delay for document downloading at the user's
end. A monitor agent predicts possible future requests that
are then prefetched to a proxy server "near" the user. An
independent cache is provided for all users at the proxy
server side. The documents are prefetched , in the user's
cache at the proxy server. A separate cache for each user
helps prevent a small number of users from exploiting
network resources. Intelligent prefetching reduces
document retrieval latency at the expense of minimal
increase in network trmc.