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A Soft Computing Prefetcher to Mitigate Cache Degradation by Web Robots
Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2017
  • Ning Xie, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Kyle Brown, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Nathan Rude, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Derek Doran, Wright State University - Main Campus
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Abstract

This paper investigates the feasibility of a resource prefetcher able to predict future requests made by web robots, which are software programs rapidly overtaking human users as the dominant source of web server traffic. Such a prefetcher is a crucial first line of defense for web caches and content management systems that must service many requests while maintaining good performance. Our prefetcher marries a deep recurrent neural network with a Bayesian network to combine prior global data with local data about specific robots. Experiments with traffic logs from web servers across two universities demonstrate improved predictions over a traditional dependency graph approach. Finally, preliminary evaluation of a hypothetical caching system that incorporates our prefetching scheme is discussed.

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10261)

DOI
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59072-1_63
Citation Information
Ning Xie, Kyle Brown, Nathan Rude and Derek Doran. "A Soft Computing Prefetcher to Mitigate Cache Degradation by Web Robots" Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2017 Vol. 10261 (2017) - 546 ISSN: 978-3-319-59072-1
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/derek_doran/49/