Web Page Adaptation for Small Screen Mobile Device: A New P2P Collaborative Deployment Approach

Abstract

In mobile computing environments, as handheld devicespsila small-screen, limited computing ability and capacity of storage, consumers still experience difficulties when browsing the Web on such devices. Some researches focus on how to adapt a normal Web page to handheld device. Meanwhile, it is necessary to put existing Web adaptation engines into practice. To meet the requirement, a new scheme of mobile device oriented Web page adaptation based on P2P collaborative deployment is proposed: on the premise of splitting a normal Web page into small logical blocks, a P2P collaborative deployment scheme is provided; a specific algorithm is designed to assign blocks, manage devices, coordinate devices and decide how to carry exiting Web adaptation engine by the using of P2P collaborative work mode; moreover, a prototype system and its evaluation experiments have been implemented to verify the scheme and show its values in both technical and economical viewpoints.