Towards a Smart, Self-scaling Cooperative Web Cache

Abstract. The traditional client/server architecture for web service de-livery fails to naturally scale. This results in growing costs to the service provider for powerful hardware or extensive use of Content Distribution Networks. A P2P overlay network provides inherent scalability with mul-tiple benefits to both clients and servers. In this paper, we provide anal-ysis, design and prototype implementation of Cooperative Web Cache, which allows us to scale web service delivery and cope with demand spikes by employing clients in content replication. To demonstrate per-formance capabilities, we provide a prototype emulation for both client and server.