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Efficient Scaling Of A Web Proxy Cluster, Hao Zhang
Efficient Scaling Of A Web Proxy Cluster, Hao Zhang
Masters Theses
With the continuing growth in network traffic and increasing diversity in web content, web caching, together with various network functions (NFs), has been introduced to enhance security, optimize network performance, and save expenses. In a large enterprise network with more than tens of thousands of users, a single proxy server is not enough to handle a large number of requests and turns to group processing. When multiple web cache proxies are working as a cluster, they talk with each other and share cached objects by using internet cache protocol (ICP). This leads to poor scalability.
This thesis describes the development …