A caching approach for XML based medical data

This paper discusses the representation and caching of medical data structured andstored as XML documents Caching of XML medical data is proposed towards improvingthe medical data accesibility and availability The representation of XML medical data isa tree like structure and the caching process is guided by frequency of access of the XMLmedical data records Experimentation is carried out for an articial workload of patientrecords and both cache and byte hit ratios are evaluated The proposed caching schemeis proven to be quite eective and benecial for accessing the medical data.