smartHTTP: Improving rural mobile user experience

Mobile Internet connectivity in Indian rural areas is fragile and unreliable, thus needs continuous reattempt to successful data transmission, which becomes agitating and frustrating, and is quite expensive. The existing economical, engineering and infrastructural challenges act as deterrents in building enriching rural mobile-based user experiences. Consequently, significant societal adoption of mobile-based ICT4D systems is severely impaired. This paper describes an adaptive and smart mechanism - smartHTTP - for transmitting data over a weak network. Data analysis shows that smartHTTP performs better than HTTP in intermittent network conditions.