Study 2 (Newkirk): Cloud-based P2P Web Caching for Mobile Devices

More and more web traffic is generated from mobile devices. User-perceived response time is an important performance metric for mobile user experience. Web caching is a widely used approach to reducing the response time. However, mobile devices often have limited storage space. The traditional web caching approaches cannot achieve very high cache hit rate. In this research, we used cloud computing and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) techniques to design a cloud-based P2P web caching approach for mobile devices. Our approach was not replacement of the existing web caching approaches. It complemented the existing approaches to increase cache hit rate to further reduce the response time for mobile users. We performed experimental studies to validate our approach