TY - JOUR
T1 - The Web for underpowered mobile devices
T2 - lessons learned from Google Glass
AU - Chauhan, Jagmohan
AU - Kaafar, Mohamed Ali
AU - Mahanti, Anirban
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - This article examines some of the potential challenges associated with enabling a seamless web experience on underpowered mobile devices having display capabilities such as Google Glass from the perspective of web content providers, device, and network. We conducted experiments to study the impact of webpage complexity, individual web components, and different application layer protocols while accessing webpages on the performance of the Glass browser. We measured webpage load time, temperature variation, and power consumption and compared them to a smartphone. Our findings suggest that (a) performance of Glass compared to a smartphone in terms of power consumption and webpage load time deteriorates with increasing webpage complexity, (b) execution time for popular JavaScript benchmarks is about three to eight times higher on Glass compared to a smartphone, (c) WebP is a more energy-efficient image format than JPEG and PNG, and (d) seven out of 50 websites studied are optimized for content delivery to Glass.
AB - This article examines some of the potential challenges associated with enabling a seamless web experience on underpowered mobile devices having display capabilities such as Google Glass from the perspective of web content providers, device, and network. We conducted experiments to study the impact of webpage complexity, individual web components, and different application layer protocols while accessing webpages on the performance of the Glass browser. We measured webpage load time, temperature variation, and power consumption and compared them to a smartphone. Our findings suggest that (a) performance of Glass compared to a smartphone in terms of power consumption and webpage load time deteriorates with increasing webpage complexity, (b) execution time for popular JavaScript benchmarks is about three to eight times higher on Glass compared to a smartphone, (c) WebP is a more energy-efficient image format than JPEG and PNG, and (d) seven out of 50 websites studied are optimized for content delivery to Glass.
KW - Google Glass
KW - performance
KW - Web browser
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048683275&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MIC.2017.3301612
DO - 10.1109/MIC.2017.3301612
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85048683275
VL - 22
SP - 38
EP - 47
JO - IEEE Internet Computing
JF - IEEE Internet Computing
SN - 1089-7801
IS - 3
ER -