TranSquid: Transcoding and Caching Proxy for Heterogenous E-CommerceEnvironments

Abstract With the advent of the Wireless Internet, the client spacehas become heterogeneous in terms of device capabilities. To cater to the needs of these devices in E-Commerce ap-plications, smart intermediaries have been developed to increase the user satisfaction by hiding the inherent weaknessof some of the small although handy devices like the PDAs and Web-tops. Transcoding has been a popular techniqueto render data for small devices that have smaller displays, and lesser colour capabilities. But transcoding comes at thecost of caching at the Intermediary