Web File Transmission by Object Packaging - Performance Comparison with HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 Persistent Connection

Recently, the largest concern for corporate owners of World Wide Web servers is how to minimize the response time, which ultimately is concerned of how quickly information can be displayed at a customer’s local monitor. In order to minimize the response time, a new efficient file transmission technique for World-Wide-Web, called web file transmission by Object Packaging, is proposed. The prototype design and preliminary performance evaluation of Object Packaging have been presented in the 27th Conference on Local Computer Networks. In this paper, the performance of Object Packaging is compared to HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 Persistent Connection in terms of the server and client response time and CPU workload by experiment method. It is found that Object Packaging reduces the response time and CPU workload at the server by up to 92.0 and 91.1% from HTTP 1.0 and 64.5 and 82.4% from HTTP 1.1 Persistent Connection, respectively. From the results of the experiments, Object Packaging is found to be an efficient technique to minimize the response time in transferring web files. The results of the experiments also suggest the significance of disk I/O overhead for web servers in high speed networks.