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BrowserCloud: A Personal Cloud for Browser Session Migration and Management

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Junjie Feng,

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WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2743043

Published: 18 May 2015 Publication History

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Web browsers are de facto clients for an ever-increasing range of web applications. At the same time, web users are accessing these applications from a wide range of devices. This paper presents a solution for runtime browser session migration and management, called BrowserCloud, which allows a user to securely manage multiple browsers from a personal or third-party Cloud service, migrate snapshots of active browser sessions between browsers over different devices, using a robust security module. The design of BrowserCloud is based on browser extensions/plugins that can preserve and restore browser session state, and a PHP server that stores browser sessions securely. We have tested our implementation over a range of increasingly complex web applications, including WebRTC and HTML5 video. To the best of our knowledge, our implementation is the most robust and secure approach to runtime browser session management to date.

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WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

May 2015

1602 pages

ISBN:9781450334730

DOI:10.1145/2740908

General Chairs:
Aldo Gangemi
National Research Council, Italy & Paris 13 University-CNRS, France
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Stefano Leonardi
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Alessandro Panconesi
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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Luxey ABromberg YCosta FLima Vda Rocha RTaiani F(2018)Sprinkler: A probabilistic dissemination protocol to provide fluid user interaction in multi-device ecosystems2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)10.1109/PERCOM.2018.8444577(1-10)Online publication date: Mar-2018
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Wang YHuang LLiu XSun TLei K(2018)Performance Comparison and Evaluation of WebSocket Frameworks: Netty, Undertow, Vert.x, Grizzly and Jetty2018 1st IEEE International Conference on Hot Information-Centric Networking (HotICN)10.1109/HOTICN.2018.8605989(13-17)Online publication date: Aug-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/HOTICN.2018.8605989

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