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Browser Caching

Consider an HTTP server and client as shown in the figure below. Suppose that the RTT delay between the client and server is 30 msecs; the time a server needs to transmit an object into its outgoing link is 1 msecs; and any other HTTP message not containing an object has a negligible (zero) transmission time. Suppose the client again makes 100 requests, one after the other, waiting for a reply to a request before sending the next request.

Assume the client is using HTTP 1.1 and the IF-MODIFIED-SINCE header line. Assume 30% of the objects requested have NOT changed since the client downloaded them (before these 100 downloads are performed)



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1. How much time elapses (in milliseconds) between the client transmitting the first request, and the completion of the last request?




Solution


1. (RTT * NUM_PACKETS) + (NUM_PACKETS * (PERCENT__NOT_CACHED / 100) * TRANS_DELAY) = (30 * 100) + (100 * ((100-30) / 100) * 1) = 3070 ms



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