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The demand for internet access has been characterized by an exponential growth. The introduction of high-speed satellite communications systems providing direct-to-home internet is a response to this increasing demand. However such systems use geo-synchronous satellites and suffer from high latency. Currently, the most popular application layer protocols for the World Wide Web (WWW) are HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1. Since HTTP is a request-response protocol, there are performance issues with using it over high-delay links such as links involving Geo-synchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites. Such usage leads to severely increased user perceived latency which makes ”internet browsing” a cumbersome experience. In this paper we investigate this problem and analyze a mechanism to reduce this user-perceived delay .
Research supported by NASA under cooperative agreement NCC8235, Hughes Network Systems and the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program.
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Bhalekar, A., Baras, J. (2004). Cumulative Caching for Reduced User-Perceived Latency for WWW Transfers on Networks with Satellite Links. In: Dini, P., Lorenz, P., de Souza, J.N. (eds) Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources. SAPIR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27767-5_18
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