7 papers
Self-Regulating Cars: Automating Traffic Control in Free Flow Road Networks
Ankit Bhardwaj, Rohail Asim, Sachin Chauhan +2
Free-flow road networks, such as suburban highways, are increasingly experiencing traffic congestion due to growing commuter inflow and limited infrastructure. Traditional control…
MAML: Towards a Faster Web in Developing Regions
Ayush Pandey, Matteo Varvello, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed +3
The web experience in developing regions remains subpar, primarily due to the growing complexity of modern webpages and insufficient optimization by content providers. Users in the…
The GAIUS Experience: Powering a Hyperlocal Mobile Web for Communities in Emerging Regions
Rohail Asim, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Arko Chatterjee +3
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…
NaijaHate: Evaluating Hate Speech Detection on Nigerian Twitter Using Representative Data
Manuel Tonneau, Pedro Vitor Quinta de Castro, Karim Lasri +4
To address the global issue of online hate, hate speech detection (HSD) systems are typically developed on datasets from the United States, thereby failing to generalize to English…
ZEUS: An Experimental Toolkit for Evaluating Congestion Control Algorithms in 5G Environments
Rohail Asim, Muhammad Khan, Luis Diez +4
As global cellular networks converge to 5G, one question lingers: Are we ready for the 5G challenge? A growing concern surrounds how well do existing congestion control algorithms…
JSAnalyzer: A Web Developer Tool for Simplifying Mobile Pages Through JavaScript Optimizations
Moumena Chaqfeh, Jacinta Hu, Waleed Hashmi +3
The amount of JavaScript embedded in Web pages has substantially grown in the past decade, leading to large and complex pages that are computationally intensive for mobile devices.…
To Block or Not to Block: Accelerating Mobile Web Pages On-The-Fly Through JavaScript Classification
Moumena Chaqfeh, Muhammad Haseeb, Waleed Hashmi +6
The increasing complexity of JavaScript in modern mobile web pages has become a critical performance bottleneck for low-end mobile phone users, especially in developing regions. In…