Research Article
Strategies for Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Access: An East African Case Study
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29093-0_7, author={Le Wang and Edward Mutafungwa and Yeswanth Puvvala and Jukka Manner}, title={Strategies for Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Access: An East African Case Study}, proceedings={e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries. Third International ICST Conference, AFRICOMM 2011, Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 23-24, 2011, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={AFRICOMM}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Energy efficiency Web Proxy and 2G/3G}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29093-0_7} }- Le Wang
Edward Mutafungwa
Yeswanth Puvvala
Jukka Manner
Year: 2012
Strategies for Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Access: An East African Case Study
AFRICOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29093-0_7
Abstract
The limited battery life of mobile handheld devices coupled with the lack of readily or reliable access to electricity is proving to be a major barrier to both adoption and usage of mobile Internet services in most African countries. Therefore, new methods of energy-efficient delivery of mobile web content are essential for prolonging battery life. This paper discusses and evaluates four energy-saving strategies, namely mobile optimization, HTTP compression, caching and proxy. The proposed energy-efficient proxy achieves at most 60% and 74% energy saving in 2G and 3G networks respectively without affecting user experience. As a case study, we consider usage trends and sample web content from three East African countries (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda).
