A New Environment for Web Caching and Replication Study

Web Caching and replication have received considerable attention in the past years due to effectiveness in reducing client response time and network traffic. In this paper we describe a tool to improving the Web caching and replication study. An important difference with other tools is this tool try to take advantage of two tools very useful in caching and computer networks study, Proxycizer[Gadde98] and NS[NS] respectively. Proxycizer2ns is an approach to combine automatically these two tools, and in that way to improving our large scale web caching and replication study, taking the best of both parts, in one hand the facility of simulating an infrastructure which allow large scale caching and replication analisys, and in the other hand the verification of impact in the network that this simulated infrastructure have produced, rarely presented by other tool in such a didactic and complete way.