Growing Internet usage on mobile devices in cellular networks makes it increasingly
important to assure good performance for web traffic, which often consists of many short …

Network updates have become increasingly prevalent since the broad adoption of software-
defined networks (SDNs) in data centers. Modern TCP designs, including cutting-edge TCP …

Connection coalescing, enabled by HTTP/2, permits a client to use an existing connection to
request additional resources at the connected hostname. The potential for requests to be …

Many web applications adopt Transfer Control Protocol (TCP) as the underlying protocol,
where congestion control (CC) plays a vital role in reliable transmission. However, some …

Web performance researchers have to regularly choose between synthetic and in-the-wild
experiments. In the one hand, synthetic tests are useful to isolate what needs to be …

The FCC-proposed broadband consumer labels are designed to enable quality and price
transparency, and thus competition, for residential broadband services. Key quality …

Over the last decade, the world has seen an increase in the adoption of computing
technology powered by the affordability of innovative mobile devices, exponential growth in …

Cellular networks present high latencies, especially in the Radio Acccess Network (RAN).
The new generation of cellular technology 5G, in addition to increasing transmission …

Quality of experience with the mobile web remains poor, with most pages taking several
seconds to load, years after users have moved to mobile devices as their primary way to …

Since the dawn of the internet, protocols have seen massive innovations that have improved
our experiences. The most prominent of these advances are in the application layer space …