An Experimental View on Fairness between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2

As the modern web becomes complicated, HTTP has been upgraded from 1.1 to 2. Many web browsers and servers have adopted HTTP/2 that provides improved performance, security and bandwidth, and they support both HTTP/1.1 as well as HTTP/2 clients for the migration period. In general, HTTP/2 is consider...

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Published in:	2019 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) pp. 399 - 401
Main Authors:	Min, Jiwon, Lee, Youngseok
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01-01-2019
Subjects:	3G mobile communication fairness HTTP/1.1 HTTP/2 Indexes Local area networks Long Term Evolution Packet loss page load time TCP Web servers
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Summary:	As the modern web becomes complicated, HTTP has been upgraded from 1.1 to 2. Many web browsers and servers have adopted HTTP/2 that provides improved performance, security and bandwidth, and they support both HTTP/1.1 as well as HTTP/2 clients for the migration period. In general, HTTP/2 is considered to outperform HTTP/1.1, but it does not always guarantee the enhanced throughput. In this paper, we look into the fairness issue when HTTP/1.1 clients compete with HTTP/2 clients to connect the same web server simultaneously. From the realistic network environments such as WLAN, cellular 3G or LTE networks, we show that the HTTP/2 clients do not achieve the fair network bandwidth allocation when multiple HTTP/1.1 clients are connected to the web server.
DOI:	10.1109/ICOIN.2019.8718119