1st International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems

Research Article

A Windows Based Web Cache Simulator Tool

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2933,
        author={F.J.  Gonz\^{a}lez-Ca\`{o}ete and E. Casilari and A. Trivi\`{o}o-Cabrera},
        title={A Windows Based Web Cache Simulator Tool},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Web cache replacement policies simulator IRCache.},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2933}
    }
    
  • F.J. González-Cañete
    E. Casilari
    A. Triviño-Cabrera
    Year: 2010
    A Windows Based Web Cache Simulator Tool
    SIMUTOOLS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2933
F.J. González-Cañete1,*, E. Casilari1,*, A. Triviño-Cabrera1,*
  • 1: University of Málaga, ETSI Telecomunicación, 29071- Málaga (Spain) +34 952 13 27 55
*Contact email: fgc@uma.es, ecasilari@uma.es, atc@uma.es

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a Windows based Web cache simulator tool. This tool is able to process the IRCache based traces files and reproduce the behavior of a Web Proxy Cache. It can be configured to simulate fifteen replacement policies and two admission control policies. The cache size, the percentage of warm-up and the cost function of some replacement policies can also be configured. The simulations can be performed in a batch process and the results are stored in text format files that can be automatically analyzed using other tools like Matlab to obtain performance graphs