A Proxy Architecture to Enhance the Performance of WAP 2.0 by Data Compression

<p/> <p>This paper presents a novel proxy architecture for wireless application protocol (WAP) <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i1.gif"/></inline-formula> employing an advanced data compression scheme. Though optional in WAP <inline-form...

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Main Authors: Yin Zhanping, Leung Victor CM
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2005-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
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Online Access:http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2005/547803
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description <p/> <p>This paper presents a novel proxy architecture for wireless application protocol (WAP) <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i1.gif"/></inline-formula> employing an advanced data compression scheme. Though optional in WAP <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i2.gif"/></inline-formula>, a proxy can isolate the wireless from the wired domain to prevent error propagations and to eliminate wireless session delays (WSD) by enabling long-lived connections between the proxy and wireless terminals. The proposed data compression scheme combines content compression together with robust header compression (ROHC), which minimizes the air-interface traffic data, thus significantly reduces the wireless access time. By using the content compression at the transport layer, it also enables TLS tunneling, which overcomes the end-to-end security problem in WAP 1.x. Performance evaluations show that while WAP 1.x is optimized for narrowband wireless channels, WAP <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i3.gif"/></inline-formula> utilizing TCP/IP outperforms WAP 1.x over wideband wireless channels even without compression. The proposed data compression scheme reduces the wireless access time of WAP <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i4.gif"/></inline-formula> by over <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i5.gif"/></inline-formula> in CDMA2000 1XRTT channels, and in low-speed IS-95 channels, substantially reduces access time to give comparable performance to WAP 1.x. The performance enhancement is mainly contributed by the reply content compression, with ROHC offering further enhancements.</p>
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spelling doaj.art-3d048df3776642078b1df53c09d095f82022-12-22T02:22:18ZengSpringerOpenEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking1687-14721687-14992005-01-0120051547803A Proxy Architecture to Enhance the Performance of WAP 2.0 by Data CompressionYin ZhanpingLeung Victor CM<p/> <p>This paper presents a novel proxy architecture for wireless application protocol (WAP) <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i1.gif"/></inline-formula> employing an advanced data compression scheme. Though optional in WAP <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i2.gif"/></inline-formula>, a proxy can isolate the wireless from the wired domain to prevent error propagations and to eliminate wireless session delays (WSD) by enabling long-lived connections between the proxy and wireless terminals. The proposed data compression scheme combines content compression together with robust header compression (ROHC), which minimizes the air-interface traffic data, thus significantly reduces the wireless access time. By using the content compression at the transport layer, it also enables TLS tunneling, which overcomes the end-to-end security problem in WAP 1.x. Performance evaluations show that while WAP 1.x is optimized for narrowband wireless channels, WAP <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i3.gif"/></inline-formula> utilizing TCP/IP outperforms WAP 1.x over wideband wireless channels even without compression. The proposed data compression scheme reduces the wireless access time of WAP <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i4.gif"/></inline-formula> by over <inline-formula><graphic file="1687-1499-2005-547803-i5.gif"/></inline-formula> in CDMA2000 1XRTT channels, and in low-speed IS-95 channels, substantially reduces access time to give comparable performance to WAP 1.x. The performance enhancement is mainly contributed by the reply content compression, with ROHC offering further enhancements.</p>http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2005/547803wireless networkswireless application protocolwireless proxy
spellingShingle Yin Zhanping
Leung Victor CM
A Proxy Architecture to Enhance the Performance of WAP 2.0 by Data Compression
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
wireless networks
wireless application protocol
wireless proxy
title A Proxy Architecture to Enhance the Performance of WAP 2.0 by Data Compression
title_full A Proxy Architecture to Enhance the Performance of WAP 2.0 by Data Compression
title_fullStr A Proxy Architecture to Enhance the Performance of WAP 2.0 by Data Compression
title_full_unstemmed A Proxy Architecture to Enhance the Performance of WAP 2.0 by Data Compression
title_short A Proxy Architecture to Enhance the Performance of WAP 2.0 by Data Compression
title_sort proxy architecture to enhance the performance of wap 2 0 by data compression
topic wireless networks
wireless application protocol
wireless proxy
url http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2005/547803
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