Intelligent browser initiated server pushing

Abstract

This paper proposes enhanced browser initiated pushing (BIP) approaches to reduce the download latency for web pages and to improve web server resource utilization. In our BIP approaches, upon receiving a HTTP request, the server actively pushes embedded contents if the permission is given by the client. By means of the pushing mechanism, the HTML web page will be downloaded in one RTT if the embedded contents and the HTML web page are on the same server. The number of requests a web server receives may be reduced significantly and the percentage of HTML documents that may benefit from BIP is quite high. Using trace-driven simulation, this paper presents an evaluation of enhanced BIP approaches that vary in the manner that client cache information is conveyed to the server.