Accelerating the mobile web with selective offloading.

ABSTRACTMobile Web page loads are notoriously slow due to limited computing power and slow network access. Our preliminary experiments show that computation is a significant fraction of page load time on mobile devices. Also, energy arguments suggest that it will stay this way. To compensate the limited computing power, our position is that offloading portions of the page load process to the cloud can significantly improve mobile page load time. We propose a measurement-based framework that allows to offload portions of mobile page load process to the cloud. Unlike browsers that offload fixed parts of page loads such as Opera Mini, our framework will allow to offload any portion of the page load process. We will experiment with a large variety of real-world situations (e.g., varying computing power on mobile devices) by offloading varying portions of page loads using our framework. Informed by the experimental results, we will develop a mobile browser that considers the diverse situations as well as energy and data usage.