Paper Info
Title
Enhancing RSS Feeds: Eliminating Overhead through Binary Encoding
Abstract
While RSS feeds increase in popularity as a mean to stay up to date with the most recent changes on a website, its XML representation is causing bandwidth related problems. These issues relate to the verbosity and the indivisible nature of the XML language. As such, bandwidth is wasted twofold as (1) an RSS feed has no compact representation due to the plain text XML representation and (2) previously received information about the RSS feed is discarded every time the RSS viewer retrieves the feed. Compression (binary encoding) of the XML data becomes relevant to eliminate the overhead. In this paper, we demonstrate the usefulness of the MPEG-7 Binary Format for Metadata to address both overhead issues. We validate its usability in a typical RSS scenario by calculating the byte size reduction and by comparing the processing speed of creating and parsing binary encoded RSS feeds to traditional RSS feeds.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICITA.2005.129
ICITA (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
bandwidth related problem,plain text xml representation,rss feed,xml language,enhancing rss feeds,rss viewer,typical rss scenario,traditional rss,compact representation,xml data,xml representation,binary encoding,xml,writing,binary codes,bandwidth,usability,data compression,encoding,information retrieval
Byte,Metadata,Information retrieval,XML,Computer science,Binary code,Plain text,Data compression,RSS,Encoding (memory)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2316-1
1
0.39
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robbie De Sutter1519.29
Sam Lerouge2425.30
Davy De Schrijver312417.67
Rik Van de Walle42040238.28