Abstract

Disconnected operation, in which a client accesses a service without

recycling on network connectivity, is crucial for improving availability,
supporting mobility, and providing responsive performance. Because
many web services are not cacheable, disconnect access to b services
may require mobile service code to execute in client caches.
Furthermore as web workloads access large amounts of data,
disconnected access must require prefetching data that will later be used
on demand. Unfortunately, this can significantly increase the total
amount of data fetched by a service. In this thesis we present an
argument that aggressive prefetching is feasible A study of the web
workload characteristics at typical clients suggests a need for a flexible,
automated resource management system to prevent denial of service
attacks by these potentially unreliable mobile service codes that prefetch
at the client& We therefore present and evaluate a Popularity based
resource management policy for such an environment.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abstract
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1

Challenges

1.2

Contributions

Chapter 2 End-to-end costs and benefits of prefetching

2.1 Cost assumptions

13

2.1.1 Network

13

2.1.2 Client

16

2.1.3 Server

18

2.1.4 Human wait time

19

2.2 Technology trends

20

2.3 Heterogeneous devices

21

2.4 Prioritized traffic

22

2.4.1 Network

23

2.4.2 Server

25

2.4.3 Client

27

Chapter 3

Client resource requirements

31

3.1

Design space

31

3.2

Workload characteristics

34

3.3

Working set study

35

3.4

Disk space consumption

38

3.5

Network bandwidth consumption

39

Resource management system for clients

43

4.1

System architecture

44

4.2

Policy requirements

46

4.3

Popularity-based resource policy

47

4.4

Evaluation

50

4.5

Limitations

55

Related work

58

5.1

Disconnected operations related

58

5.2

Resource management related

59

Chapter 6

Conclusion and Future Work

61

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

References

63