Stee. A study of integrated document and connection caching

1 Introduction Recently there has been considerable research interest in document caching [5, 7-12] and connection caching [2-4] in networks. In document caching, one has to maintain local caches containing documents available in the network. In connection caching, one has to maintain a set of open network connections that handle data transfer. However, previous work investigated these two problems separately, while in practice they are very closely related