Object packaging - Web response time reduction for slow and busy Web servers

An ongoing research activity to reduce response time in Web file transmissions is presented. A new transmission technique, object packaging, is proposed for reduced response time for Web browsing. Object packaging aims to reduce overhead not only at routers on a transmission path but at a transmitting Web serve for better response time. The object packaging intends to address two different issues in Web file transmissions; (1) disk access overheads and (2) protocol processing overheads. Experimental study showed that the file transmissions by object packaging reduced response time, number of transferred bytes and the packets by 34.7, 40.1 and 7.1%, respectively, for files with their average file size being 10 K bytes, which is the average file size in the Web traffic in the current Internet.