HTTP Steady Connections for Robust Web Acceleration

Sunjae Kim, Wonjun Lee

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    Abstract

    HTTP's intrinsic request-and-response traffic pattern makes most web servers often idle, leaving a potential to accelerate page loads. We present the notion of HTTP steady connections, which fully utilizes the server's available network bandwidth during a page load using the promising HTTP/3 server push, transforming the intermittent workload of loading a page into a more steady one. To construct a proper server push policy to achieve this, we separate the structure of a page, which is a relatively static factor, from the page load environments including client and network characteristics, which are generally dynamic and unknown to servers. We formulate a deadline-based sequencing problem using a page load model with dependency graphs and design a feedback-based reprioritization mechanism within HTTP server push to reactively match client progress robustly. Experiments with a prototype and a wide range of real-world pages show that HTTP steady connections significantly improve web page loads compared with state-of-the-art accelerators, even under packet losses and without any prior knowledge of network environments.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationACM Web Conference 2023 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
    Pages3154-3163
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9781450394161
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2023 Apr 30
    Event2023 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023 - Austin, United States
    Duration: 2023 Apr 302023 May 4

    Publication series

    NameACM Web Conference 2023 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023

    Conference

    Conference2023 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityAustin
    Period23/4/3023/5/4

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2019R1A2C2088812). Wonjun Lee is the corresponding author.

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2023 ACM.

    Keywords

    • HTTP/3
    • QUIC
    • Web Performance

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Software

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