Rethinking Resource Management in Mobile Web: Measurement, Deployment, and Runtime

After its birth since early 1990s, the Web has been the major factor that drives the success of the Internet. In the past decade, the access to the Web has undergone a tremendous evolution from PC to mobile devices, i.e., via smartphones, tablet computers, and wearable devices. It is a key challenge to make the future mobile Web more "user friendly", i.e., smooth interactions, fast page load time, reasonable data traffic volume, efficient energy drain, etc. Due to the device diversity and dynamic network connections, a better client-side resource management is quite critical. This paper presents a new perspective of measuring the resource management in a proactive fashion, and identifies various insights that have not been covered by existing efforts. Then we present our visionary holistic approach to optimizing the mobile Web, including the new deployment model and runtime support along with the preliminary principled design.