Title
 Scalable protocols for the Internet to Reduce Service Time and
 Server Load

Authors 
 P. Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa
 Institute of Industrial Science 
 The University of Tokyo 
 7-22-1, Roppongi, Minato-ku 
 Tokyo 106, Japan 

Reference
 P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Scalable protocols for the Internet to  
 reduce service time and server load, 1999 International Computer Science    
 Conference (Theme: Internet Applications), December 13-15, 1999, Hong Kong,  
 China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.1749, pp.346-353, Springer- 
 Verlag. 

Abstract
 In this paper, we have proposed scalable protocols for the Internet to
 reduce service time and server load.  In this approach, we assume that
 a client cooperates by acting as a server to the cached web pages. To
 reduce the service time, the server forwards the incoming requests to
 other clients which have cached the web pages.  As a result, the
 service time scales well as server load increases. Also, with these
 protocols, the traffic is evenly distributed among the network. This
 approach is a generalization of caching technology. However, for
 implementation, the proposed approach requires support from the
 Internet user, system development, and governing communities. If
 adopted, we believe that the proposed approach provides a scalable
 solution to the problems of server overloading and long service times
 in the Internet.