| Title | Siskin: Leveraging the Browser to Share Web Content in Disconnected Environments |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Sudar, Samuel, Welsh, Matt, Anderson, Richard |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-5816-3 |
| Keywords | Metrics, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, Web Caching |
| Abstract | Schools in the developing world frequently do not have high bandwidth or reliable connections, limiting their access to web content. As a result, schools are increasingly turning to Offline Educational Resources (OERs), employing purpose-built local hardware to serve content. These approaches can be expensive and difficult to maintain in resource-constrained settings. We present Siskin, an alternative approach that leverages the ubiquity of web browsers to provide a distributed content access cache between user devices on the local network. We demonstrate that this system allows access to web pages offline by identifying the browser as a ubiquitous platform. We build and evaluate a prototype, showing that existing web protocols and infrastructure can be leveraged to create a powerful content cache over a local network. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3209811.3209820 |
| DOI | 10.1145/3209811.3209820 |
| Citation Key | sudar_siskin:_2018 |
Siskin: Leveraging the Browser to Share Web Content in Disconnected Environments