Abstract
As the main web page access modality shifts to mobile devices, evaluations
of the impact on underlying networks is required to perform long–term
strategic optimizations. In this paper, we characterize individual mobile
web page objects by size, cache expiration, and their composition into
pages. Employing popular mobile web landing pages, we evaluate their
characteristics on an individual and composed page level to derive a model
that captures their main facets with respect to object size and caching
distributions on a lumped and contextually aggregated page level. We
observe that similar distributions can be employed for overall object sizes
as well as their composition to web pages, while the cache expiration ages
need to be taken into account for different contextual types of web pages.
Employing our model, we successfully approximate cache lifetimes for the
mobile web, demonstrating its use for mobile web performance evaluations.
The employed model thus allows network operators to perform broad planning
on different time scales.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) |
| Pages | 5226–5231 |
| State | Published - Jun 2015 |