Performance Analysis of Ubiquitous Web Systems for SmartPhones

As smartphone clients are restricted in computational power and bandwidth it is important to minimise the overhead of transmitted messages and since it results in processing time when implementing a web service. This paper identifies and studies methods that reduce the amount of data being transferred via wireless links between a Web service client and a Web service. The goal is to improve the end-to-end service execution time by reducing the bottleneck presented by the limited bandwidth in an ubiquitous environment. Measurements are performed in a real environment based on a web service prototype providing public transport information for the city of Hamburg in Germany, using actual wireless links with a mobile smartphone device. The existing SOAP based web service is evaluated against a REST based web service using the data exchange formats JSON, XML and Fast Infoset.©2011 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.Katrin Hameseder, Scott Fowler and Anders Peterson, Performance Analysis of Ubiquitous Web Systems for SmartPhones, 2011, IEEE International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS’11).Swedish Excellence Center at Linkoping - Lund in information Technology (ELLIIT