Evaluating the Performance of Next Generation Web Access via Satellite

Raffaello Secchi; Althaff  Mohideen; Gorry Fairhurst

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_12

Evaluating the Performance of Next Generation Web Access via Satellite

Raffaello Secchi, Althaff Mohideen, Gorry Fairhurst

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Abstract

Responsiveness is a critical metric for web performance. Update to the web protocols to reduce web page latency have been introduced by joint work between the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This has resulted in new protocols, including HTTP/2 and TCP modifications, offering an alternative to the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP/1.1). This paper evaluates the performance of the new web architecture over an operational satellite network. It presents the main features of the new protocols and discusses their impact when using a satellite network. Our tests comparing the performance of web-based applications over the satellite network with HTTP/2 confirm important reductions of page load times with respect to HTTP/1.1. However, it was also shown that performance could be significantly improved by changing the default server/client HTTP/2 configuration to best suit the satellite network.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Wireless and Satellite Systems
Editors	Prashant Pillai, Yim Fun Hu, Ifiok Otung, Giovanni Giambene
Publisher	Springer
Pages	163-176
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-25479-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-25478-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_12
Publication status	Published - 2015

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Publisher	Springer
Volume	154
ISSN (Electronic)	1867-8211

Bibliographical note

Raffaello Secchi was funded by the European Community under its 7th Framework Programme through the Reducing Internet Transport Latency (RITE) project (ICT-317700).

Althaff Mohideen was by the RCUK Digital Economy programme of the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1.

Keywords

SPDY
HTTP/2
PEP

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Gorry Fairhurst
- Engineering, Engineering - Personal Professor
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Raffaello Secchi
- Engineering, Engineering - Lecturer
Person: Academic

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Secchi, R., Mohideen, A., & Fairhurst, G. (2015). Evaluating the Performance of Next Generation Web Access via Satellite. In P. Pillai, Y. F. Hu, I. Otung, & G. Giambene (Eds.), Wireless and Satellite Systems (pp. 163-176). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 154). Springer . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_12

Evaluating the Performance of Next Generation Web Access via Satellite. / Secchi, Raffaello; Mohideen, Althaff ; Fairhurst, Gorry.
Wireless and Satellite Systems. ed. / Prashant Pillai; Yim Fun Hu; Ifiok Otung; Giovanni Giambene. Springer , 2015. p. 163-176 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 154).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Secchi, R, Mohideen, A & Fairhurst, G 2015, Evaluating the Performance of Next Generation Web Access via Satellite. in P Pillai, YF Hu, I Otung & G Giambene (eds), Wireless and Satellite Systems. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 154, Springer , pp. 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_12

Secchi R, Mohideen A, Fairhurst G. Evaluating the Performance of Next Generation Web Access via Satellite. In Pillai P, Hu YF, Otung I, Giambene G, editors, Wireless and Satellite Systems. Springer . 2015. p. 163-176. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering). Epub 2015 Dec 17. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_12

Secchi, Raffaello ; Mohideen, Althaff ; Fairhurst, Gorry. / Evaluating the Performance of Next Generation Web Access via Satellite. Wireless and Satellite Systems. editor / Prashant Pillai ; Yim Fun Hu ; Ifiok Otung ; Giovanni Giambene. Springer , 2015. pp. 163-176 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).

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