On Supporting Weakly-Connected Browsing in a Mobile Web Environment

A mobile environment is weakly-connected, characterized by low communication bandwidth and poor connectivity. Conventional paradigm for sur ng mobile web documents is ine ective since portions of a document could be corrupted during transmission and it is expensive to retransmit the whole document. It is important that the high content-bearing portions should be transmitted successfully so that a mobile client could at least obtain a high level content and determine if the corrupted portions need to be retransmitted. We have proposed a multi-resolution transmission paradigm which allows higher content-bearing portions of a web document to be transmitted, by partitioning it into multiple organizational units and associating an information content with each unit. The client can explore the higher content-bearing portion earlier and terminate browsing an irrelevant document sooner. In this paper, we extend our previous work and propose a fault-tolerant multi-resolution transmission schem...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Antonio Si, Hong Va Leong, Dennis McLeod, Stanley M. T. Yau
• Keywords: Content-bearing Portion, Corrupted Portions, Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICDCS 2000, Web Document