Augmenting mobile 3G using WiFi
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Proportional rate reduction for TCP
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Proceedings of the Seventh COnference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
Demystifying page load performance with WProf
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Reducing web latency: the virtue of gentle aggression
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Accelerating the mobile web with selective offloading
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Mobile cloud computing
Towards a SPDY'ier mobile web?
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
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SPDY is increasingly being used as an enhancement to HTTP/1.1. To understand its impact on performance, we conduct a systematic study of Web page load time (PLT) under SPDY and compare it to HTTP. To identify the factors that affect PLT, we proceed from simple, synthetic pages to complete page loads based on the top 200 Alexa sites. We find that SPDY provides a significant improvement over HTTP when we ignore dependencies in the page load process and the effects of browser computation. Most SPDY benefits stem from the use of a single TCP connection, but the same feature is also detrimental under high packet loss. Unfortunately, the benefits can be easily overwhelmed by dependencies and computation, reducing the improvements with SPDY to 7% for our lower bandwidth and higher RTT scenarios. We also find that request prioritization is of little help, while server push has good potential; we present a push policy based on dependencies that gives comparable performance to mod_spdy while sending much less data.