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USITS '03 Abstract
Moving Edge-Side Includes to the Real Edge—the Clients
Michael Rabinovich and Zhen Xiao, AT&T Labs—Research; Fred Douglis, IBM Research; Chuck Kalmanek, AT&T Labs—Research
Abstract
Edge-Side Includes (ESI) is an open mark-up lan-guage
that allows content providers to break their pages
into fragments with individual caching characteristics.
A page is reassembled from ESI fragments by a content
delivery network (CDN) at an edge server, which selectively
downloads from the origin content server only
those fragments that are necessary (as opposed to the
entire page). This is expected to reduce the load and
bandwidth requirements of the content server.
This paper proposes an ESI-compliant approach in
which page reconstruction occurs at the browser rather
than the CDN. Unlike page assembly at the network
edge, CSI optimizes content delivery over the last mile,
which is where the true bottleneck often is. We call the
client-based approach Client-Side Includes, or CSI.
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