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Applied cryptography (2nd ed.): protocols, algorithms, and source code in C
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Frontiers of electronic commerce
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Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A fast MPEG video encryption algorithm
MULTIMEDIA '98 Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Multimedia
A Communication Framework for Digital Libraries
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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Software Agents and Soft Computing: Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence, Concepts and Applications
Communication Support in Operating Systems for Distributed Transactions
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ASSET '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application - Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology
Measuring Web Performance in the Wide Area
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Computer Communications
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A major bottleneck in using the web for accessing data and executing transactions for e-commerce is the performance. It can take 500–1400 ms to set up the connection and download a web page. Several hundred milliseconds are taken to transmit a multimedia web image. A simple web transaction may have a response time of 2–5 s. The consistency control mechanisms can double this time. A typical electronic trading transaction may take close to 2 min. I assert that the performance is unacceptable and the main cause is the communication system. The communication delays under a variety of scenarios and their causes and remedies are the focus of this study. Mechanisms have been developed for studying the performance of the web transaction processing on the Internet. Experimental studies have been conducted to analyze and understand the behavior of web based transactions and to measure the communication delays. The developed mechanisms have been used to perform a series of experiments around the world. Experiments were conducted to measure the communication delays for different steps which includes web page downloading, access to digital library data and transaction processing. This paper presents the experimental results for a variety of cases. It concludes by suggesting directions for decreasing the communication latency and improving the performance of web transactions.