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Heuristic Connection Management for Improving Server-Side Performance on the Web

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Open Hypermedia Systems and Structural Computing (SC 2000, OHS 2000)

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HTTP/1.1 standard reduces latencies and overhead from closing and re-establishing connections by supporting persistent connections as a default, which encourage multiple transfers of objects over one connection. HTTP/1.1, however, does not define explicitly connection-closing time but specifies a certain fixed holding time model. This model 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 heuristic connection management supported by the client-side under persistent HTTP, in addition to HTTP/1.1’s fixed holding time model on server-side. The client exploits the tag information within transferred HTML page so that decides connection-closing time. As a result, the mechanism allows server to use server’s resource more efficiently without server’s efforts.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Korea University, 1, 5-ga, Anam-dong, Seongbuk-ku, Seoul, 136-701, Korea

    Yoon-Jung Rhee & Nam-Sup Park

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Rhee, YJ., Park, NS., Kim, TY. (2000). Heuristic Connection Management for Improving Server-Side Performance on the Web. In: Open Hypermedia Systems and Structural Computing. SC OHS 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1903. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39941-0_5

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