Web Acceleration by Prefetching in Extremely Large Latency Network

Fumiaki Nagase, Takefumi Hiraguri, Kentaro Nishimori, Hideo Makino

Graduate School of Science & Technology, Niigata University, Niigata-shi, Niigata, Japan.
Nippon Institute of Technology, 4-1 Gakuendai, Miyashiro-machi, Minamisaitama-gun, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/ajor.2012.23041                

Abstract

A scheme for high-speed data transfer via the Internet for Web service in an extremely large delay environment is proposed. With the wide-spread use of Internet services in recent years, WLAN Internet service in high-speed trains has commenced. The system for this is composed of a satellite communication system between the train and the ground station, which is characterized by extremely large latency of several hundred milliseconds due to long propagation latency. High-speed web access is not available to users in a train in such an extremely large latency network system. Thus, a prefetch scheme for performance acceleration of Web services in this environment is proposed. A test-bed system that implements the proposed scheme is implemented and is its performance in this test-bed is evaluated. The proposed scheme is verified to enable high-speed Web access in the extremely large delay environment compared to conventional schemes.

Keywords

Extremely-Large-Latency Network; Satellite Communication; HTTP; Web Prefetching; Prefetching Proxy Server; Information Storage Server

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

References

[1]	D. Raggett, A. L. Hors and I. Jacobs, “HTML 4.01 Specification,” W3C Recommendation, 24 December 1999.
[2]	T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding and H. Frystyk, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP/1.0.,” RFC 1945 MIT/LCS, UC Irvine, May 1996.
[3]	R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach and T. Berners-Lee, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP/1.1,” Internet Draft Standard RFC 2616, June 1999.
[4]	T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding and H. Frystyk, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP/1.0.,” RFC 1945 MIT/LCS, UC Irvine, May 1996.
[5]	R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach and T. Berners-Lee, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP/1.1,” Internet Draft Standard RFC 2616, June 1999.
[6]	X. Liang, F. L. C. Ong, P. M. L. Chan and R. E. Sheriff and P. Conforto, “Mobile Internet Access for High-speed Trains via Heterogeneous Networks,” The 14th IEEE 2003 International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication Proceedings, Vol. 1, 7-10 September 2003, pp. 177-181.
[7]	V. Schena and F. Ceprani, “FIFTH Project Solutions Demonstrating New Satellite Broadband Communication System for High Speed Train,” 2004 IEEE 59th Conference on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 5, 17-19 May 2004, pp. 2831-2835.
[8]	IEEE Std. 802.11, Part 11, “Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications,” ISO/IEC 8802-11, 2008.
[9]	H. Obata, K. Ishida, J. Funasaka and K. Amano, “Data Transfer Time by HTTP1.0/1.1 on Asymmetric Networks Composed of Satellite and Terrestrial Links,” IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E85-B, No. 12, 2002, pp. 2895-2903.
[10]	G. Hasegawa, M. Murata and H. Miyahara, “Performance Evaluation of HTTP/TCP on Asymmetric Networks,” International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1999, pp. 281-296.
[11]	M. Allman, V. Paxson and W. Stevens, “TCP Congestion Control,” RFC 2581, April 1999.
[12]	W. R. Stevens, “The Protocols,” In: TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1, Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1994.
[13]	Z. Reserch, “The Need for Speed II,” Zona Market Bulletin, No. 05, April 2001.
[14]	T. Hyashi, Y. Muto and I. Nakajima, “Subjective Quality Evaluation on Response Time in Web Service,” IEICE General Conference, B-11-23, Ritsumeikan University, March 2011.
[15]	T. Yoshino, Y. Sugawara, K. Inagami, J. Tamatsukuri, M. Inaba and K. Hiraki, “Performance Optimization of TCP/ IP over 10 Gigabit Ethernet by Precise Instrumentation,” International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC 2008), 15-21 November 2008, pp. 1-12. doi:10.1109/SC.2008.5215913
[16]	S. Souders, “High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers,” O’Reilly Media, September 2007.
[17]	H. F. Nielsen, J. Gettys, A. Baird-Smith, E. Prud’hommeaux, H. W. Lie and C. Lilley, “Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG,” Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM’97 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1997, pp. 155-166.
[18]	K. Chinen and S. Yamaguchi, “An Interactive Prefetching Proxy Server for Improvement of WWW Latency,” Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Internet Society (INEt’97), Kuala Lumpur, June 1997.
[19]	V. N. Padmanabhan and J. C. Mogul, “Using Predictive Prefetching to Improve World Wide Web Latency,” ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, 1996, pp. 22-36. doi:10.1145/235160.235164
[20]	R. Shinkuma, M. Okada and S. Komaki, “Adaptive Transmission Scheme for Web Prefetching in Wireless Environment,” IEICE Transaction on Electronics, Vol. E85-C, No. 3, 2002, pp. 485-491.
[21]	“MIME Media Types,” http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html