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Traditionally the alternatives for Web content storage have been full replication and full distribution. More recently partial replication has been proposed as an hybrid strategy. This paper shows a quantitative justification to advantages achieved by using this approach in terms of storage capacity usage and reliability. Our analytical study proves that partial replication offers much higher storage capacity than full replication and that its reliability is much higher than full distribution reaching to levels equivalent to those provided by full replication.
This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education under the TIN2004-02156 contract.
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Garcia, J.D., Carretero, J., Garcia, F., Fernandez, J., Calderon, A., Singh, D.E. (2006). A Quantitative Justification to Partial Replication of Web Contents. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3983. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751632_122
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