Performance analysis of next generation web access via satellite

R. Secchi; A. C. Mohideen; G. Fairhurst

doi:10.1002/sat.1201

Performance analysis of next generation web access via satellite

R. Secchi^*, A. C. Mohideen, G. Fairhurst

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School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Abstract

Responsiveness is a critical metric for web performance. Recent work in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has resulted in a new set of web protocols, including definition of the hypertext transfer protocol version 2 (HTTP/2) and a corresponding set of TCP updates. Together, these have been designed to reduce the web page download latency compared with HTTP/1.1. This paper describes the main features of the new protocols and discusses the impact of path delay on their expected performance. It then presents a set of tests to evaluate whether current implementations of the new protocols can offer benefit with an operational satellite access network and suggests how the specifications can evolve and be tuned to further enhance performance for long network paths.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	29-43
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking
Volume	36
Issue number	1
Early online date	21 Dec 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/sat.1201
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2018

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SPDY
HTTP/2
PEP
web performance

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