Article ID: | iaor20102982 |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 307 |
End Page Number: | 311 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Jelenkovi Predrag R, Radovanovi Ana |
Keywords: | computational analysis |
It is well known that the static caching algorithm that keeps the most frequently requested documents in the cache is optimal in case when documents are of the same size and requests are independent and identically distributed. However, it is hard to develop explicit and provably optimal caching algorithms when requests are statistically correlated. In this paper, we show that keeping the most frequently requested documents in the cache is still optimal for large cache sizes even if the requests are strongly correlated.