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dc.contributor.authorBalasubramanian, Aruna
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Yun
dc.contributor.authorCroft, Bruce
dc.contributor.authorLevine, Brian Neil
dc.contributor.authorVenkataramani, Arun
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst
dc.date2023-09-22T21:09:03.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T09:35:39Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T09:35:39Z
dc.date.issued2007-01-01
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dc.description.abstractOpportunistic connections to the Internet from open wireless access points is now commonly possible in municipal areas. Vehicular networks can opportunistically connect to the internet for several seconds via open access points. In this paper, we adapt the interactive process of web search and retrieval to vehicular networks with intermittent Internet access. Our system, called Thedu has mobile nodes use an Internet proxy to collect search engine results and prefetch result pages. The mobiles nodes download the pre-fetched web pages from the proxy. Our contribution is a novel set of techniques to make aggressive but selective prefetching practical, resulting in a significantly greater number of relevant web results returned to mobile users. To evaluate our scheme, we deployed Thedu on DieselNet, our vehicular testbed of buses operating in a micro-urban area around Amherst, MA. Using a simulated workload, we find that users can expect four times as many useful responses to web search queries compared to not using Thedu. Moreover, the mean latency in receiving the first relevant response for a query is 2.7 minutes when deployed in a semi-urban region with a sparser distribution of APs compared to big cities.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1145/1287791.1287803
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/9966
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&amp;context=cs_faculty_pubs&amp;unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectDTN
dc.subjectweb search
dc.subjectapplication
dc.subjecttestbed
dc.subjectComputer Sciences
dc.titleWeb Search From a Bus
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digcom.contributor.authorBalasubramanian, Aruna
digcom.contributor.authorZhou, Yun
digcom.contributor.authorCroft, Bruce
digcom.contributor.authorLevine, Brian Neil
digcom.contributor.authorVenkataramani, Arun
digcom.identifiercs_faculty_pubs/30
digcom.identifier.contextkey1300221
digcom.identifier.submissionpathcs_faculty_pubs/30
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