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i-Jacob: An Internetware-Oriented Approach to Optimizing Computation-Intensive Mobile Web Browsing

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Yunxin LiuAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 18, Issue 2

Article No.: 14, Pages 1 - 23

https://doi.org/10.1145/3093899

Published: 13 March 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Web browsing is always a key requirement of Internet users. Current mobile Web apps can contain computation-intensive JavaScript logics and thus affect browsing performance. Learning from our over-decade research and development experiences of the Internetware paradigm, we present the novel and generic i-Jacob approach to improving the performance of mobile Web browsing with effective JavaScript-code offloading. Our approach proposes a programming abstraction to make mobile Web situational and adaptive to contexts, by specifying the computation-intensive and “ offloadable ” code, and develops a platform-independent lightweight runtime spanning the mobile devices and the cloud. We demonstrate the efficiency of i-Jacob with some typical computation-intensive tasks over various combinations of hardware, operating systems, browsers, and network connections. The improvements can reach up to 49× speed-up in response time and 90% saving in energy.

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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Volume 18, Issue 2

Special Issue on Internetware and Devops and Regular Papers

May 2018

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ISSN:1533-5399

EISSN:1557-6051

DOI:10.1145/3182619

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Published: 13 March 2018

Accepted: 01 April 2017

Revised: 01 March 2017

Received: 01 October 2016

Published in TOIT Volume 18, Issue 2

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