Mobile Web Browsing Using the Cloud

by Bo Zhao, Byung Chul Tak, Guohong Cao

This brief surveys existing techniques to address the problem of long delays and high power consumption for web browsing on smartphones, which can be due to the local computational limitation at the smartphone (e.g., running java scripts or flash objects) level. To address this issue, an architecture called Virtual-Machine based Proxy (VMP) is introduced, shifting the computing from smartphones to the VMP which may reside in the cloud. Mobile Web...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461481023
• ISBN13: 9781461481027
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"