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Demo: Siskin: Leveraging the Browser to Share Web Content in Disconnected Environments

Published: 20 October 2017 Publication History

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Schools in the developing world frequently do not have high bandwidth or reliable connections, limiting their access to web content. As a result, schools are increasingly turning to Offline Educational Resources (OERs), employing purpose-built local hardware to serve content. These approaches can be expensive and difficult to maintain in resource-constrained settings. We present Siskin, an alternative approach that leverages the ubiquity of the web browser to provide a distributed content access cache between user devices on the local network. We demonstrate that this system allows access to web pages offline by identifying the browser as a ubiquitous platform.

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  • (2018)SiskinProceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies10.1145/3209811.3209820(1-7)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2018

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CHANTS '17: Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenged Networks
October 2017
78 pages
ISBN:9781450351447
DOI:10.1145/3124087
  • General Chair:
  • Sasu Tarkoma,
  • Program Chair:
  • Lars Wolf
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Published: 20 October 2017

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  1. information storage and retrieval
  2. network architecture and design
  3. web browser as a platform

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  • Google Inc.

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MobiCom '17
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CHANTS '17 Paper Acceptance Rate 6 of 16 submissions, 38%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 61 of 159 submissions, 38%

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  • (2018)SiskinProceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies10.1145/3209811.3209820(1-7)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2018

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