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Multicasting a Changing Repository [extended version]

Lam, Wang and Garcia-Molina, Hector (2002) Multicasting a Changing Repository [extended version]. Technical Report. Stanford.

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Abstract

Web crawlers generate significant loads on Web servers, and are difficult to operate. Instead of repeatedly running crawlers at many "client" sites, we propose a central crawler and Web repository that multicasts appropriate subsets of the central repository, and their subsequent changes, to subscribing clients. Loads at Web servers are reduced because a single crawler visits the servers, as opposed to all the client crawlers. In this paper we model and evaluate such a central Web multicast facility for subscriber clients, and for mixes of subscriber and one-time downloader clients. We consider different performance metrics and multicast algorithms for such a multicast facility, and develop guidelines for its design under various conditions.

Item Type:Techreport (Technical Report)
Uncontrolled Keywords:Web repository WebBase multicast facility scheduling
Subjects:Computer Science > Databases and the Web
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Projects:Digital Libraries
Related URLs:Project Homepagehttp://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/pub/
ID Code:741
Deposited By:Import Account
Deposited On:26 Jun 2002 17:00
Last Modified:25 Dec 2008 09:42

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