PARCEL: Proxy Assisted BRowsing in Cellular networks for Energy and Latency reduction

Today’s web page download process is ill suited to cellular networks resulting in high page load times and radio energy usage. While there have been notable prior attempts at tackling the challenge with assistance from proxies (cloud), achieving a responsive and energy efficient browsing expe-rience remains an elusive goal. In this paper, we make a fresh attempt at addressing the challenge by proposing PAR-CEL. PARCEL splits functionality between the mobile de-vice and the proxy based on their respective strengths, and in a manner distinct from both traditional browsers and ex-isting cloud-heavy approaches. We conduct extensive eval-uations over an operational LTE network using a prototype implementation of PARCEL. Our results show that PAR-CEL reduces page load times by 49.6%, and radio energy consumption by 65 % compared to traditional mobile web browsers. Further, our results show that PARCEL contin-ues to perform well under client interactions, owing to its judicious functionality split