Improving the performance of the World Wide Web over wireless networks

Author

Fleming, Todd B. ; Midkiff, Scott F. ; Davis, Nathaniel J., IV

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

3-8 Nov 1997

Firstpage

1937

Abstract

The World Wide Web has become the largest source of Internet traffic, but it was not designed for wireless networks. This paper discusses some of the problems encountered when using the Web over wireless networks and describes solutions to those problems. By designing a multithreaded proxy server that prefetches documents to clients, reduces the resolution of large bitmaps, and communicates with clients using a new protocol, the multiple hypertext transfer protocol, we have reduced document load time by over 30%

Keywords

Internet; hypermedia; network servers; performance evaluation; radio networks; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; Internet traffic; TCP/IP; World Wide Web; bitmaps resolution; document load time reduction; hypertext transfer protocol; multiple hypertext transfer protocol; multithreaded proxy server; performance; prefetching; stateful protocol; wireless networks; Computer networks; IP networks; Internet; Network servers; Portable computers; Prefetching; Protocols; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Web server; Web sites; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1997. GLOBECOM '97., IEEE

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4198-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1997.644614

Filename

644614