Progress at ISI

Protocol mechanism & meta-protocol

Low Latency Distributed Information Access (LowLat)

• Web fix via Mirage (model) via Parallel Communication (protocol)
• Augment HTTP to accept source-initiated cache preloading
  • Proxy capability, redirection, etc. already there

Intelligent Bandwidth

• Middleware to manage trade-offs
  • RAM
  • Disk
  • Processing
  • Bandwidth
  • Latency (propagation, artificial buffering, etc.)
  • Topology / protocol (e.g., radiocast, multicast, tree vs. mesh, etc.)

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