The GAIUS Experience: Powering a Hyperlocal Mobile Web for Communities in Emerging Regions
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| author | Asim, Rohail Sathiaseelan, Arjuna Chatterjee, Arko Lal, Mukund Zaki, Yasir Subramanian, Lakshmi |
| author_facet | Asim, Rohail Sathiaseelan, Arjuna Chatterjee, Arko Lal, Mukund Zaki, Yasir Subramanian, Lakshmi |
| contents | Despite increasing mobile Internet penetration in developing regions, mobile users continue to experience a poor web experience due to two key factors: (i) lack of locally relevant content; (ii) poor web performance due to complex web pages and poor network conditions. In this paper, we describe our design, implementation and deployment experiences of GAIUS, a mobile content ecosystem that enables efficient creation and dissemination of locally relevant web content into hyperlocal communities in emerging markets. The basic building blocks of GAIUS are a lightweight content edge platform combined with a mobile application that collectively provide a Hyperlocal Web abstraction for mobile users to create and consume locally relevant content and interact with other users via a community abstraction. The GAIUS platform uses MAML, a web specification language that dramatically simplifies web pages to reduce the complexity of Web content within the GAIUS ecosystem, improve page load times and reduce network costs. In this paper, we describe our experiences deploying GAIUS across a large user base in India, Bangladesh and Kenya. |
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| spellingShingle | The GAIUS Experience: Powering a Hyperlocal Mobile Web for Communities in Emerging Regions Asim, Rohail Sathiaseelan, Arjuna Chatterjee, Arko Lal, Mukund Zaki, Yasir Subramanian, Lakshmi Networking and Internet Architecture Despite increasing mobile Internet penetration in developing regions, mobile users continue to experience a poor web experience due to two key factors: (i) lack of locally relevant content; (ii) poor web performance due to complex web pages and poor network conditions. In this paper, we describe our design, implementation and deployment experiences of GAIUS, a mobile content ecosystem that enables efficient creation and dissemination of locally relevant web content into hyperlocal communities in emerging markets. The basic building blocks of GAIUS are a lightweight content edge platform combined with a mobile application that collectively provide a Hyperlocal Web abstraction for mobile users to create and consume locally relevant content and interact with other users via a community abstraction. The GAIUS platform uses MAML, a web specification language that dramatically simplifies web pages to reduce the complexity of Web content within the GAIUS ecosystem, improve page load times and reduce network costs. In this paper, we describe our experiences deploying GAIUS across a large user base in India, Bangladesh and Kenya. |
| title | The GAIUS Experience: Powering a Hyperlocal Mobile Web for Communities in Emerging Regions |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14178 |