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... target1
In the following discussion, the term target is used to refer to a Web document, specified by a URL and any applicable arguments to the HTTP GET command.
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... node2
Although we present LARD differently than in Pai et al. [23], it can be proven that the strategies are equivalent when $L_{idle} \equiv T_{low}$ and $Miss\ Cost \equiv
T_{high}-T_{low}$ .
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... idle3
An idle connection can be detected at the front-end by the absence of ACKs from the client.
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Peter Druschel
1999-04-27