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A Webpage Offloading Framework for Smart Devices

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Smart devices such as mobile phones and smart TVs are widely used for enriching our daily activities. Although their power source and processing speed are limited, it is necessary for these devices to provide certain computation power. To enhance computation capability on smart devices, offloading is proposed as one of the effective approaches. However, it requires extra efforts for developers to implement the offloading mechanism for each application. HTML5 standard provides a feature called Web Worker which allows web pages to spawn separate threads as workers. Since each worker holds individual execution environments and contexts, it is appropriate for offloading without complex partition. In this paper, we present a generic offloading framework for JavaScript Web Worker named Web Worker Offloading Framework (WWOF). This framework can offload the workers from browsers to the cloud easily and seamlessly. The Web Worker runs on an offloading server instead of on the browser, and exchanges data with clients via WebSocket. To prove the feasibility of this framework, we evaluated several benchmarks on different platforms including PCs, tablets, mobile phones and smart TVs. It is verified that this framework is able to suppress the devices’ power consumption and to increase the execution speed, while running a heavy workload.

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  1. Gong X, Liu W, Zhang J, et al. WWOF: An Energy Efficient Offloading Framework for Mobile Webpage[C]//Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. ACM, 2016: 160–169.

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This work is supported by the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20130031120028), the Research Plan in Application Foundation and Advanced Technologies in Tianjin (14JCQNJC 00700), the Open Project of the State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CARCH201604), and the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin (16JCY- BJC15 200)

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    Jin Zhang, Weilai Liu, Wenjian Zhao, Xuan Ma, Haocong Xu, Xiaoli Gong, Chengcheng Liu & Haiyang Yu

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Zhang, J., Liu, W., Zhao, W. et al. A Webpage Offloading Framework for Smart Devices. Mobile Netw Appl 23, 1350–1363 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-018-1009-z

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