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Efficient Connection Management for Web Applications

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Distributed Communities on the Web (DCW 2002)

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HTTP/1.1 may induce wasting server’s resource when server maintains connection with the idle-state client that requests no data for a certain time. This paper proposes the mechanism of a connection management supported by the client under persistent HTTP. For the mechanism, we defined finishing time of transmission for HTML page and all embedded file in it as connection-closing time on client-side. For the experimental environment, clients ran on 300Mhz Pentium II PC with 32MB of physical memory running the windows95 and servers ran on Open Win of Solaris 2.4. An experimental evaluation of connection management policies, conducted using Web server logs, shows that our policy achieves 15-20% reduction on busy Web server in cost with respect to the fixed holding-time policy.

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Korea University, Anam-dong, Seongbuk-ku, Seoul, Korea

    Yoon-Jung Rhee, Jeong-Beom Kim, Geun-Ho Kim, Song-Hee Yi & Tai-Yun Kim

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  2. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  3. Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Ulm, James Frank Ring 0-27, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Peter Schulthess

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, Canada

    Jacob Slonim

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Rhee, YJ., Kim, JB., Kim, GH., Yi, SH., Kim, TY. (2002). Efficient Connection Management for Web Applications. In: Plaice, J., Kropf, P.G., Schulthess, P., Slonim, J. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36261-4_7

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