Paper Info
Title
WWW performance over GPRS
Abstract
ó In this paper, we present investigative results of HTTP per- formance over GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). Following on from an earlier study of GPRS(3), in which we uncovered a number of perfor- mance problems with TCP (e.g. sub-optimal start-up performance, excess queueing, spurious timeouts etc.), we discuss how and to what extent these limitations can impact HTTP. We also examine some other issues specically linked to HTTP performance over GPRS. Our experimental results show that aggressive behaviour on the part of web browsers designed to perform over the wired-Internet, does not work well over GPRS. Instead, by limiting the number of browser connections, which also enables aggressive pipelining of requests, can give signicant performance benets. We show that by using a proxy located close to the wired-wireless boundary that implements performance enhancements at both the transport (TCP) and the application layer, can lead to substantial reduction in web download times over GPRS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/MWCN.2002.1045820
MWCN
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,land mobile radio,online front-ends,packet radio networks,performance evaluation,transport protocols,GPRS,General Packet Radio Service,HTTP performance,WWW performance,Web browsers,Web page download time reduction,World Wide Web,aggressive behaviour,application layer,browser TCP connections,excess queueing,mobile proxy,pipelining,spurious timeouts,sub-optimal start-up performance,transmission control protocol,transport layer,wired-Internet,wired-wireless boundary
Pipeline (computing),GPRS core network,Application layer,Web page,Computer science,Computer network,Queueing theory,Access Point Name,General Packet Radio Service,Operating system,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-7605-6
19
3.44
References 
Authors
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rajiv Chakravorty149947.06
Ian Pratt25420506.92