Intelligent caching for mobile Web browsing

To provide effective information services in the highly resource constrained and dynamically changing mobile computing environment, we device intelligent caching techniques for responsive mobile data access in general, and mobile Web browsing in particular. Our techniques take into account unique characteristics of mobile environment such as personalized information preference, mobility schedule, access pattern, as well as the possibility of receiving data from a broadcast channel. These factors are captured and reflected in a data valuation function and associated algorithms for cache admission and replacement. Preliminary implementation and evaluation results demonstrate that our techniques are quite effective in general and especially effective when a user is browsing up and down a document tree rather then simply meandering around.