Efforts to make the web faster
With the advent of SPDY, an experimental protocol developed by Google to make websites load faster and more efficiently. Many of us by now have heard of SPDY but we probably have not heard of efforts by others who have already attempted and or still looking to improve the speed of the web in the near future.
Here is a list of some of these approaches previously researched and discussed.
- Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) — a transport-layer protocol to replace TCP, which provides multiplexed streams and stream-aware congestion control.
- HTTP over SCTP — a proposal for running HTTP over SCTP. Comparison of HTTP Over SCTP and TCP in High Delay Networks describes a research study comparing the performance over both transport protocols.
- Structured Stream Transport (SST) — a protocol which invents “structured streams”: lightweight, independent streams to be carried over a common transport. It replaces TCP or runs on top of UDP.
- MUX and SMUX — intermediate-layer protocols (in between the transport and application layers) that provide multiplexing of streams. They were proposed years ago at the same time as HTTP/1.1.
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