Abstract
This paper advocates a novel approach for mobile web browsing based on cooperation among wireless devices within close proximity operating in a cellular environment. In the actual state of the art, mobile phones can access the web using different cellular technologies. However, the supported data rates are not sufficient to cope with the ever increasing traffic requirements resulting from advanced and rich content services. Extending the state of the art, higher data rates can only be achieved by increasing complexity, cost, and energy consumption of mobile phones. In contrast to the linear extension of current technology, we propose a novel architecture where mobile phones are grouped together in clusters, using a short-range communication such as Bluetooth, sharing, and accumulating their cellular capacity. The accumulated data rate resulting from collaborative interactions over short-range links can then be used for cooperative mobile web browsing. By implementing the cooperative web browsing on commercial mobile phones, it will be shown that better performance is achieved in terms of increased data rate and therefore reduced access times, resulting in a significantly enhanced web browsing user experience on mobile phones.
Highlights
One of the most rapidly growing sectors of the cellular phone market is the one corresponding to the mobile devices with advanced features
We have proposed a novel approach for web browsing on mobile phones exploiting cooperation, allowing cooperative users to download their web content faster than standard noncooperative mobile devices
In this work we have highlighted the fact that standard mobile devices provide often enough insufficient user experience due to the low supported data rate
Summary
One of the most rapidly growing sectors of the cellular phone market is the one corresponding to the mobile devices with advanced features. Today, these are represented typically by third generation (3G) mobile phones. Services available on 3G phones are not limited only to voice or Short Message Service (SMS), but multimedia delivery and mobile web browsing are becoming important. The trend of developing mobile applications as web services will become more pronounced, aiming to achieve compatibility among mobile platforms. Phone manufacturers have developed web browsers for mobile phones to give a full, desktop-like browsing experience to the users [3].
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