MejHAR: using internet measurement platforms to examine web application performance and availability

Conducting web application performance tests through internet measurement platforms offers visibility into the web content availability and delivery performance from different regional vantage points. However, achieving this is challenged by the necessity of involving the web browser in conducting the web app performance experiment, which is difficult to achieve over the existing measurements endpoints. This study proposes a system design, MejHAR, that interfaces with the browser and forwards the traffic to measurement nodes to collect web page performance metrics at the vantage point. With the challenge of traffic visibility due to encryption and HTTP/2 multiplexing, the study suggests a mechanism to derive browser metrics from the exchanged traffic using a data analysis approach.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2022

Author dc:creator

• Alowain, Lamya

Contributors dc:contributor

• Levchenko, Kirill

• Web performance
• Internet Measurement

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2022 Lamya Alowain

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115431

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F115431