Collaborative web caching system based on peer-to-peer architecture

A collaborative P2P-based Web caching system, named Buddy Web, has been proposed, whose underlying ideology is that all the PCs in an Intranet are able to share their local caching to constitute a large-scale, effective collaborative Web caching system. Buddy Web distinguishes itself from others with the advantages of scalability, effectiveness and low cost. Furthermore, the working mechanism and the algorithm of the system have also been detailed. In addition, a simulation model has been devised to evaluate such a system. And the evaluation results show Buddy Web achieves a satisfied performance in hits-ratio, traffic-load and latency of response.