Performance Evolution of Mobile Web-Based Services

The mobile Web's widespread diffusion opens many interesting design and management issues about server infrastructures that must satisfy present and future client demand. Future mobile Web-based services will have growing computational costs. Even requests for the same Web resource will require services to dynamically generate content that takes into account specific devices, user profiles, and contexts. The authors consider the evolution of the mobile Web workload and trends in server and client devices with the goal of anticipating future bottlenecks and developing management strategies.