Abstract   Accessing the  World  Wide  Web  with  the wireless devi ces has been the promising technology for the past few years.  Interruption  in  World  Wide  Web  access  during  handov er  in  a  cellular  network  can  be  avoided  by  relocating  in  advance  the  proxy cache to the target base station before the h andover using the path prediction algorithm. To red uce the cache overhead  in  the  handover,  this  paper  proposes  a  “distance  ba sed  relocation”  mechanism,  in  which  the  cache  of  th e  base  station  is  relocated  once  the  mobile  unit  reaches  the  relocati on  point  in  the  cell.  This  mechanism  estimates  the  time  at  which  the  relocation has to be done by keeping track of the d istance between the mobile terminal and the base st ation.      

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