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TwoB: a two-tier web browser architecture optimized for mobile network

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Junguk Cho,

Jinkyu Jeong,

Euiseong SeoAuthors Info & Claims

MoMM '12: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia

Pages 267 - 270

https://doi.org/10.1145/2428955.2429006

Published: 03 December 2012 Publication History

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The connection establishment phase including DNS lookups and TCP handshakes takes significantly long time during web browsing through mobile network. In this paper, we propose a novel web browser architecture that aims at improving mobile web browsing performance. Our approach delegates the connection establishment phase and HTTP header field delivery to a dedicated proxy server located at the joint point between WAN and mobile network to reduce both the number and size of packets on mobile network. Our evaluation showed that the proposed scheme reduces the number of mobile network packets by up to 52% and, consequently, shortens the average page loading time by up to 37%.

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TwoB: a two-tier web browser architecture optimized for mobile network
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web interfaces
      1. Browsers

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MoMM '12: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia

December 2012

323 pages

ISBN:9781450313070

DOI:10.1145/2428955

Conference Chair:
Matthias Steinbauer
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
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Ismail Khalil
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
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Eric Pardede
La Trobe University, Australia
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David Taniar
Monash University, Australia

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Singh SMadhyastha HKrishnamurthy SGovindan RFdida SPau GKasera SZheng H(2015)FlexiWebProceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking10.1145/2789168.2790128(604-616)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2015
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Bouras CPapazois AStasinos N(2014)A Framework for Cross-Platform Mobile Web Applications Using HTML5Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud10.1109/FiCloud.2014.75(420-424)Online publication date: 27-Aug-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/FiCloud.2014.75

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