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Simulation is a very powerful and widely-accepted tool in the research of reactive web caching. This paper first gives a brief overview of the functionality of reactive web caching and pays special attention to the creation of representative traffic patterns for effectively modeling the real workloads a caching application deals with. An upgraded version of the Wisconsin web cache simulator is presented as a case study. This upgraded version constitutes a light and intelligent testing environment of the largest created database of replacement strategies, as it is able to handle effectively even the most complex of the proposed strategies.
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Kastaniotis, G., Douligeris, C. (2009). An Efficient Simulator for Reactive Web Caching. In: Damiani, E., Jeong, J., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02937-0_7
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