Author(s)

Qigang Liu, Xiangyang Sun

Sydney Institute of Language & Commerce, ShangHai University, ShangHai, China.

Regarding the limitations of traditional web real-time communication solutions such as polling, long-polling, flash plug-in, propose that using new coming Web Socket technology in the web real-time communication field, introduce the features of Web Socket technology, analysis the difference between Web Socket protocol and HTTP protocol, offer an approach to implement the Web Socket both in client and server side, prove Web Socket can decrease network traffic and latency greatly by an experiment, made the prospect of future application of Web Socket in web real-time communication.

Web Socket; Full-Duplex; HTTP Streaming; Long-Polling; Latency

Q. Liu and X. Sun, "Research of Web Real-Time Communication Based on Web Socket," International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol. 5 No. 12, 2012, pp. 797-801. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2012.512083.