Adaptive congestion control for unpredictable cellular networks

Y Zaki, T Pötsch, J Chen, L Subramanian… - Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015‏ - dl.acm.org
Legacy congestion controls including TCP and its variants are known to perform poorly over
cellular networks due to highly variable capacities over short time scales, self-inflicted …

An in-depth study of mobile browser performance

J Nejati, A Balasubramanian - … of the 25th International Conference on …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
Mobile page load times are an order of magnitude slower compared to non-mobile pages. It
is not clear what causes the poor performance: the slower network, the slower computational …

Does quic make the web faster?

P Biswal, O Gnawali - 2016 IEEE Global Communications …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increase in size and complexity of web pages has challenged the efficiency of HTTP. Recent
developments to speed up the web have resulted in two promising protocols, HTTP/2 (RFC …

Internet performance from facebook's edge

B Schlinker, I Cunha, YC Chiu, S Sundaresan… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - dl.acm.org
We examine the current state of user network performance and opportunities to improve it
from the vantage point of Facebook, a global content provider. Facebook serves over 2 …

Jscleaner: De-cluttering mobile webpages through javascript cleanup

M Chaqfeh, Y Zaki, J Hu, L Subramanian - Proceedings of The Web …, 2020‏ - dl.acm.org
A significant fraction of the World Wide Web suffers from the excessive usage of JavaScript
(JS). Based on an analysis of popular webpages, we observed that a considerable number …

Deep diving into africa's inter-country latencies

A Formoso, J Chavula, A Phokeer… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet in Africa is evolving rapidly, yet remains significantly behind other regions in
terms of performance and ubiquity of access. This clearly has negative consequences for the …

A view from the other side: Understanding mobile phone characteristics in the develo** world

S Ahmad, AL Haamid, ZA Qazi, Z Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
Mobile devices are becoming increasingly dominant in the develo** world. However,
there is little insight into the characteristics of devices being used in such regions. Using a …

Measuring web latency and rendering performance: Method, tools, and longitudinal dataset

AS Asrese, SJ Eravuchira, V Bajpai… - … on Network and …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents Webget, a measurement tool that measures Web quality of service
(QoS) metrics, including the DNS lookup time, time to first byte (TTFB), and the download …

Inside the walled garden: Deconstructing facebook's free basics program

R Sen, S Ahmad, A Phokeer, ZA Farooq… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2017‏ - dl.acm.org
Free Basics is a Facebook initiative to provide zero-rated web services in develo**
countries. The program has grown rapidly to 60+ countries in the past two years. But it has …

Mobile web browsing under memory pressure

IA Qazi, ZA Qazi, TA Benson, G Murtaza… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2020‏ - dl.acm.org
Mobile devices have become the primary mode of Internet access. Yet, differences in mobile
hardware resources, such as device memory, coupled with the rising complexity of Web …