Agent-based Similarity-aware Web Document Pre-fetching

This paper presents an agent-based similarity-aware Web document pre-fetching scheme that is built on the similarity-aware Web caching architecture. A set of agents are employed to carry out certain duties such as document similarity detection, identification of relevant access patterns, document prediction and network traffic monitoring for document pre-fetching. Preliminary simulations have been conducted to evaluate the proposed scheme, and the results have shown that the new pre-fetching scheme outperforms existing Web-document pre-fetching algorithms