3rd International
WWW Caching Workshop and
TERENA TF-Cache Meeting
3W3

Manchester, England, June 15-17 1998
University of Manchester

Workshop Programme

This is the workshop programme as of 12th June 1995. Please note that this programme is provisional and may well be rearranged before the Workshop. A final programme will be handed to delegates at registration.

Because of the excellent response to the 'Call for Papers' the Workshop will now begin at 10.30am on Monday 15th June 1998. Registration will take place on the Sunday afternoon through Monday. More details will be supplied nearer the time.

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June

Arrive at Manchester. Registration begins on Sunday afternoon and will continue until 16:00 Monday.

Details of events and places to see in Manchester over the weekend and a list of restaurants, local hostelry etc. are on the Web.

Monday 15th June

08:30 - 16:00Registration. (Reception, Hulme Hall.)

Presentations

10:30 - 10:45Welcome.
Dr Peter Mills, Head of Networking, Operations and Systems, University of Manchester.
10:45 - 11:15Experiences with Installing and Running an Institutional Cache.
Andrew Cormack, University of Cardiff, Wales.
11:15 - 11:45NetCache Architecture and Deployment.
Peter Danzig, Network Appliance, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
11:45 - 12:15Potential and limits of Web Prefetching Between Low-Bandwidth Clients and Proxies
Quinn Jacobson, Pei Cao, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
12:15 - 12:45QoS in Web Caching.
Manuel Afonso, Alexandre Santos, Vasco Freitas, University of Minho, Portugal
12:45 - 14:00Lunch. (Refectory, Hulme Hall.)
14:00 - 14:30Analysing the Behaviour of a Proxy Server in the light of Regional and Cultural Issues.
Viriglio Augusto F Almeida, Marcio G Cesario, Rodrigo C Fonseca, Wagner Meira Jr., Cristina D Murta.
14:30 - 15:00Relation Analyses Cache Meshes.
Ingrid Melve, UNINETT, Norway.
15:00 - 15:30Analyzing Performance of Partitioned Caches for the WWW
Cristina Duarte Murta, Viriglio A F Almeida, Wagner Meira Jf, Federal University of Minas Geais, Brazil.
15:30 - 16:00Refreshements
16:00 - 16:30Benefits of Compression in HTTP Applied to Caching Architectures
Juan Ramon Velasco, Luis Alberto Velasco, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
16:30 - 17:00Design and Implementation of a Soft caching Proxy
Jussi Kangasharu, Young Gap Kwon, Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California.
17:00 - 17:30WWW Caching in Russia - Current state and Future Development., Serge Krashakov, Lev Shchur, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia.
17:30 - 19:00Exhibition.
19:00 - 22:00Visit to the Manchester Museum of Science and Technology.
This event is sponsored by InfoLibria.
22:00 - 24:00Return to Hulme Hall. BoFs.

Tuesday 16th June

09:00 - 09:30Long term Viability of Large Scale Caches.
Paul Gauthier, CTO, Inktomi Corporation.
09:30 - 10:00Report on the Costs and Benefits of Cache Hierarchy in Korea.
Jieun Lee, Hyojung Hwang, Youngmin Chin, Korea Telecom, Seoul, Korea.
Hyunchul Kim, Kilnam Chon, Department of Science, KAIST, Korea.
10:00 - 10:30Linking Cache Performance to User Behaviour.
Ian Marshall, Chris Roadknight, BT Research Laboratories, UK.
10:30 - 11:00Load and Traffic Balancing in Large Scale Cache Meshes.
Christian Grimm, Helmut Pralle, Jens-S. Vockler, Institute for Computer NBetworks and Distributes Systems,Hanover, Germany.
11:00 - 11:30Refreshments.
11:30 - 12:00Visualisation of the Growth and Topology of the NLANR Caching Hierarchy.
Bradley Huffaker, Jaeyeon Jung, CAIDA, University of California, Duane Wessels, NLANR, USA, K Claffy, CAIDA, University of California.
12:00 - 12:30The Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure Project: An Architecture for Internet Content Channels.
Micah Beck, Terry Moore, Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee.
12:30 - 13:00Intelligent Web Caching using Document Life Histories: A Comparison with exisitng Cache Management Techniques
Mike Reddy, Graham P Fletcher, University of Glamorgan, Wales.
13:00 - 14:00Lunch. (Refectory)
14:00 - 14:30DynaCache: Weaving Caching into the Internet.
Solom Heddaya, InfoLibria, USA.
14:30 - 15:00Cache Digests.
Alex Rousskov, Duane Wessels, NLANR, USA.
15:00 - 15:30Adaptive Web Caching: Towards a New Global Architecture.
Lixia Zhang, Scott Michel, Khoi Nguyen, Adam Rosenstein, UCLA, USA
15:30 - 16:00Measuring Proxy Performance with the Wisconsin Proxy Benchmark.
Pei Cao, Jussara Almeida, University of Wisconsin, USA.
16:00 - 16:30Refreshments.

Parallel Session - Some Short Papers.

16:30 - 18:00Using Network Level Support to Improve Cache Routing, MIT, USA.
Ulana Legedza, John Guttag.
The UK National JANET Cache.
The UK JANET Caching Team, Universities of Manchester and Loughborough.
Cooperative Caching Using Multicasting over G-MING, Greater Manchester.
Jim Strom, George Neisser, J Heaton, University of Manchester, UK.
Harnessing the potential of HP Openview in a National Caching Environment.
D McGlennagan, George Neisser, University of Manchester, UK.
Filtering Algorithm for Proxy Caches
Michal Kurcewicz, Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Adam Wierbicki, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland.
On the Implications of Zipf's Law for Web Caching
Pei Cao, Universiy of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
18:00 - 19:00Exhibition
19:00 - 24:00Workshop Banquet

Wednesday 17th June

09:00 - 9:25Transparent Web Caching Solutions
Bert Williams, Alteon Networks, USA
09:25 - 9:50CFTP - A caching FTP Server
Mark Russell, Tim Hopkins, University of Kent, UK
09:50 - 10:15Improving the WWW: Caching or Multicast
Pablo Rodriguez, Ernst W Biersack, Keith W Ross, Institut EURECOM, France
10:15 - 10:40The LSAM Proxy Cache - a Multicast Distributed Virtual Cache
Joe Touch, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA
10:40 - 11:05Refreshments
11:05 - 11:30Not all Hits are Created Equal: Cooperative Proxy Caching Over a Wide Area Network
Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Labs
Jeff Chase, Syan Gadde, Duke University, Durham, USA
11:30 - 11:55A Distributed WWW Cache
Michal Kurcewicz, Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Adam Wierzbicki, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland
11:55 - 12:20Request Routing in Cache Meshes
Christian Grimm, Mare Neitzner, Helmut Pralle, Jens-S. Vockler
Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, Hannover, Germany

Jeff Chase, Syan Gadde, Duke University, Durham, USA
12:20 - 12:45Evaluating and Configuring WWW Cache Hierarchies
Wagner Meira Jr., Erik Fonseca, Cristina D Murta, Virgilio Augusto F Almeida
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
12:45 - 13:00Farewell
13:30 - 14:30Lunch.

Poster Session

Deployment of the Armenian Regional Academical Cache ServiceArthur Petrosyan, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia.

UK Cache Operators Meeting

14:30 - 17:00UK Cache Operators and Administrators Meeting.
15:00 - 17:00Whilst not part of the official Computer 50 celebrations, there may be an opportunity for those not involved in the UK part of the meeting to attend the Mark-1 Launch Event at the Bridgewater Hall in the City of Manchester. If you are interested, please inform one of the organising team at registration on Monday 15th.


TERENA TF-Cache Meeting

Thursday 18th June

10:30 - 12:30TERENA TF-Cache Meeting. Hulme Hall
12:30 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 16:00TERENA TF-Cache Meeting. Hulme Hall

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