Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 1997. GLOBECOM '97., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4198-8
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.1997.644614
