Multi-layer analysis of Web browsing performance for wireless PDAs

Author

Omotayo, Adesola ; Williamson, Carey

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada

fYear

2004

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

660

Lastpage

667

Abstract

This work studies the user-level and network-level performance for a mobile client browsing the Web using a wireless personal digital assistant (PDA). A wireless network analyzer is used to collect traces of the TCP/IP network traffic generated to and from the wireless PDA. Multi-layer protocol analysis is used to assess the Web browsing performance achieved, and identify protocol performance problems. The analyses focus on server response time, document size, HTTP transfer time, TCP performance, and wireless channel quality. The results from our experiments provide insight into strategies that could be used by Web content providers, Web servers, HTTP and TCP to improve Web browsing performance for mobile users.

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; mobile computing; notebook computers; online front-ends; performance evaluation; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; HTTP transfer time; TCP/IP network traffic; Web browsing performance; document size; mobile client; mobile users; multi-layer protocol analysis; network-level performance; personal digital assistant; server response time; user-level performance; wireless PDA; wireless channel quality; Delay; IP networks; Network servers; Performance analysis; Personal digital assistants; Protocols; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic; Web server; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2004. 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2260-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2004.81

Filename

1367303