Paper Info
Title
Reducing User Perceived Latency with a Proactive Prefetching Middleware for Mobile SOA Access
Abstract
Network latency is one of the most critical factors for the usability of mobile SOA applications. This paper introduces prefetching and caching enhancements for an existing SOA framework for mobile applications to reduce the user perceived latency. Latency reduction is achieved by proactively sending data to the mobile device that could most likely be requested at a later time. This additional data is piggybacked onto responses to actual requests and injected into a client side cache, so that it can be used without an additional connection. The prefetching is done automatically using a sequence prediction algorithm. The benefit of prefetching and caching enhancements were evaluated for different network settings and a reduction of user perceived latency of up to 31% was found in a typical scenario. In contrast to other prefetching solutions, our piggybacking approach also allows to significantly increase battery lifetime of the mobile device.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.4018/jwsr.2011010104
Int. J. Web Service Res.
Keywords
Field
DocType
additional connection,caching enhancement,latency reduction,prefetching solution,network latency,proactive prefetching middleware,user perceived latency,different network setting,additional data,mobile device,mobile soa application,mobile application,mobile soa access,human centered computing,distributed applications,middleware,buffering
Piggybacking (Internet access),Middleware,Client-side,Computer science,Cache,Latency (engineering),Usability,Mobile device,Human-centered computing,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1545-7362
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.38
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Schreiber1639.56
Andreas Göb260.75
Erwin Aitenbichler317320.84
Max Mühlhäuser41652252.87