Greeshma G. Vijayan and Jayasudha J. S, SCT College of Engineering, India

As the Internet continues to grow in size and popularity, web traffic and network bottlenecks are major issues in the network world. The continued increase in demand for objects on the Internet causes severe overloading in many sites and network links. Many users have no patience in waiting more than few seconds for downloading a web page. Web traffic reduction techniques are necessary for accessing the web sites efficiently with the facility of existing network. Web pre-fetching techniques and web caching reduces the web latency that we face on the internet today. This paper describes about the various prefetching and caching techniques, how they predict the web object to be pre-fetched and what are the issues challenges involved when these techniques are applied to a mobile environment.

Prefetching, cache, latency