Literature Database Entry

holzinger2025browsem

Kilian Holzinger, Florian Klein, Daniel Petri, Stefan Lachnit, Sebastian Gallenmüller and Georg Carle, "BrowsEm: Model-based Web Site Loading Emulation," Proceedings of Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW 2025), Madrid, Spain, June 2025, pp. 47–53.

Abstract

Continuous research and engineering efforts aim to improve the performance of web networking protocols, such as TCP, QUIC, TLS, and HTTP. Performance measurements are conducted to assess the impact of changes to these protocols, their implementations, or the underlying network infrastructure. However, this is a challenging task due to the increasing complexity of web site deployments and browser and server software. In this work, we introduce BrowsEm, a web site loading emulator capable of reproducing page loading workloads. Its underlying model is based on data scraped from real web sites and takes network path characteristics, protocols, dependencies between HTTP transactions, and their individual timing aspects into account. Modularly structured and using wide-spread libraries like libcurl, it allows for testing a wide range of emulation parameters such as network conditions or protocol implementations and obtaining reproducible results. Our evaluation shows that the emulation introduces a relative error smaller than ± 0.25 for 80% of observed page load times. In a measurement campaign, we find that the model shows suitable robustness for artificially changed parameters.

Quick access

Original Version DOI (at publishers web site)
BibTeX BibTeX

Contact

Kilian Holzinger
Florian Klein
Daniel Petri
Stefan Lachnit
Sebastian Gallenmüller
Georg Carle

BibTeX reference

@inproceedings{holzinger2025browsem,
    author = {Holzinger, Kilian and Klein, Florian and Petri, Daniel and Lachnit, Stefan and Gallenm{\"{u}}ller, Sebastian and Carle, Georg},
    doi = {10.1145/3744200.3744759},
    title = {{BrowsEm: Model-based Web Site Loading Emulation}},
    pages = {47--53},
    publisher = {ACM},
    isbn = {979-8-4007-2009-3},
    address = {Madrid, Spain},
    booktitle = {Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW 2025)},
    month = {6},
    year = {2025},
   }
   
   

Copyright notice

Links to final or draft versions of papers are presented here to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted or distributed for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

The following applies to all papers listed above that have IEEE copyrights: Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.

The following applies to all papers listed above that are in submission to IEEE conference/workshop proceedings or journals: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible.

The following applies to all papers listed above that have ACM copyrights: ACM COPYRIGHT NOTICE. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Publications Dept., ACM, Inc., fax +1 (212) 869-0481, or permissions@acm.org.

The following applies to all SpringerLink papers listed above that have Springer Science+Business Media copyrights: The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

This page was automatically generated using BibDB and bib2web.

Last modified: 2026-04-30