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Characterizing cache usage for mobile web applications

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Yun Ma,

Xuan Lu,

Shuhui Zhang,

Xuanzhe LiuAuthors Info & Claims

Internetware '14: Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware

Pages 68 - 71

https://doi.org/10.1145/2677832.2677843

Published: 17 November 2014 Publication History

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Web application is a key app on mobile devices. However, the performance of mobile Web applications is known to be poor. Resource loading is a key factor influencing Web applications performance. Cache is an effective mechanism to accelerate resource loading by enabling to access resources directly from local storage. In this paper, we make a quantitative study to characterize how mobile Web applications leverage cache to improve its performance. The results show that mobile Web cache is not so efficient. On one hand, redundant transfers are always there to waste data traffic and energy consumption no matter the client support is perfect or not. On the other hand, changed resources are not replaced from cache in time, leading to incorrect functions.

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de Munk OScoccia GMalavolta I(2022)The state of the art in measurement-based experiments on the mobile webInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106944149:COnline publication date: 1-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106944
De Munk OMalavolta I(2021)Measurement-based Experiments on the Mobile Web: A Systematic Mapping StudyProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/3463274.3463318(191-200)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3463274.3463318

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Internetware '14: Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware

November 2014

152 pages

ISBN:9781450333030

DOI:10.1145/2677832

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Peking University, China
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Nanjing University, China
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Peking University, China
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

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de Munk OScoccia GMalavolta I(2022)The state of the art in measurement-based experiments on the mobile webInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106944149:COnline publication date: 1-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106944
De Munk OMalavolta I(2021)Measurement-based Experiments on the Mobile Web: A Systematic Mapping StudyProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/3463274.3463318(191-200)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3463274.3463318

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