Theoretical Performance Analysis of Mirroring World-Wide Web Sites

Popular World-Wide Web sites can often cause congestion hot spots in the network resulting in bad performance. Typically such sites are mirrored in order to alleviate bottlenecks. This presents users of these sites with a choice of hwere to access their documents. Using a theoretical Web access delay model a performance analysis is carried out which shows the effects of mirror location and communication facility speed. Furthermore, viewed from a Game Theoretic perspective, the results of this analysis show how user access strategies may be influenced by the model parameters.