HTTPEP: a HTTP Performance Enhancing Proxy for Satellite Systems

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Published Nov 1, 2011
https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v2i3.23
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Volume 2, Issue 3, November 2011: SPECIAL ISSUE ON EMERGING NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES

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Paul Davern
Noor Nashid
Cormac J. Sreenan
Ahmed Zahran

Abstract

Broadband satellites enable Internet access for remote communities and niche markets such as ships and airplanes. However, their inherent characteristics, such as long delays and limited resources, significantly degrade the end- user's web browsing quality-of-experience. In this paper, we propose a novel HTTP Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) that accelerates web-browsing and improves the utilization of satellite resources. We describe HTTP optimizations, which enable this acceleration. We show that, optimizing the transport layer to the communication mechanism of a HTTP PEP gives further benefits in terms of a reduction in bandwidth usage and computing resource utilization. Our performance evaluation shows an average reduction in Web page-load latency of up to 27%.

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Paul Davern, Noor Nashid, Cormac J. Sreenan, & Ahmed Zahran. (2011). HTTPEP: a HTTP Performance Enhancing Proxy for Satellite Systems. International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, 2(3), 242–256. https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v2i3.23
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