Native Web Communication Protocols and Their Effects on the Performance of Web Services and Systems

Abstract

Native Web communication protocols are the pivotal components of Web services, applications and systems. In particular, HTTP is a de facto protocol standard used in almost all Web services and systems. Consequently, it is one of the crucial protocols responsible for the performance of Web services and systems. HTTP/1.1 has been successfully deployed in Web services and systems for the last two decades. However, one of the most significant issues with HTTP/1.1 is the Round Trip Time and Web latency. To resolve this issue, two successor protocols SPDY and HTTP/2 have been developed recently, with some studies suggesting that SPDY improved the performance of Web services and systems, whilst some did not find significant improvements in the performance. HTTP/2 is a relatively new protocol and has yet to be tested with any rigour. Therefore, it is important to investigate the effects of these two enhanced protocols SPDY and HTTP/2 on the performance of Web services and systems. This paper conducts a number of practical investigations to evaluate the performance of Web services and systems with and without the support of SPDY and HTTP/2 protocols at the client and server. This study investigates the impact of SPDY and HTTP/2 on the overall performance of Web services and systems from the end-user's perspective.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CIT.2016.100
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
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Event Title: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT)
Event Type: Other
Event Dates: 2016-12-08 - 2016-12-10
Uncontrolled Keywords: Web Protocols,Web Services,Web Applications,,Web Systems,Web Latency,Round Trip Time,HTTP,SPDY,HTTP/2,HTTP/1.1,SOAP,REST
ISBN: 978-1-5090-4315-6, 978-1-5090-4314-9
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 17:45
Date Deposited: 16 Sep 2020 12:31
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PURE Output Type: Conference contribution
Published Date: 2017-03-13
Accepted Date: 2016-01-01
Authors: Naik, Nitin (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0659-9646)
Jenkins, Paul
Davies, Philip
Newell, David

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