Interactive Web Caching for Slow or Intermittent Networks

Interactive Web Caching for Slow or Intermittent Networks, Chen, J., & Subramanian, L. (2013, December). In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, (p. 5). ACM.

We explore the limitations of existing caching mechanisms in slow networks and propose a new model of web caching designed for developing regions called interactive caching. Unlike conventional caching, interactive caching makes interacting with the cache the focus of web browsing when the connection is bad…In this paper we implement a prototypical version of interactive caching…We show how interactive caching can dramatically improve the user experience for slow connections…

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