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PARCEL: Proxy Assisted BRowsing in Cellular networks for Energy and Latency reduction

Authors:

Ashiwan Sivakumar,

Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan,

Vijay Gopalakrishnan,

Subhabrata SenAuthors Info & Claims

CoNEXT '14: Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies

Pages 325 - 336

https://doi.org/10.1145/2674005.2675004

Published: 02 December 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Today's web page download process is ill suited to cellular networks resulting in high page load times and radio energy usage. While there have been notable prior attempts at tackling the challenge with assistance from proxies (cloud), achieving a responsive and energy efficient browsing experience remains an elusive goal. In this paper, we make a fresh attempt at addressing the challenge by proposing PARCEL. PARCEL splits functionality between the mobile device and the proxy based on their strengths, and in a manner distinct from both traditional browsers and existing cloud-heavy approaches. We conduct extensive evaluations over an operational LTE network using a prototype implementation of PARCEL. Our results show that PARCEL reduces page load times by 49.6%, and radio energy consumption by 65% compared to traditional mobile web browsers. Further, our results show PARCEL continues to perform well under client interactions, owing to its judicious functionality split.

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PARCEL: Proxy Assisted BRowsing in Cellular networks for Energy and Latency reduction
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  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
2. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Application layer protocols

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