Efficient and Scalable Client-Clustering for Proxy Cache

Many cooperated web cache systems and protocols have been proposed. These systems, however, require expensive resources, such as external bandwidth and proxy cpu or storage, while inducing hefty administrative costs to achieve adequate client population growth. Moreover, a scalability problem in the cache server management still exists. This paper suggests peer-to-peer client-clustering. The client-cluster provides a proxy cache with backup storage which is comprised of the residual resources of the clients. We use DHT based peer-to-peer lookup protocol to manage the clientcluster. With the natural characteristics of this protocol, the client-cluster is selforganizing, fault-tolerant, well-balanced and scalable. Additionally, we propose the Backward ICP which is used to communicate between the proxy cache and the client-cluster, to reduce the overhead of the object replication and to use the resources more efficiently. We examine the performance of the client-cluster via a trace driven simulation and demonstrate effective enhancement of the proxy cache performance.