Performance Analysis of Web Services on Mobile Devices

With the recent rapid development of mobile devices in terms of processing power, memory and storage capabilities coupled with the advancements of wireless technology in terms of higher data transmission rates such as 3G and 4G, it has now become feasible to host Web services on mobile devices. In this paper we propose a lightweight framework for hosting Web services on mobile devices. We further evaluate and provide a comparative analysis for hosting RESTful Web services versus SOAP-based Web services on our framework. Our experimental results and analysis indicate that RESTful Web services are less resource consuming and more efficient for the implementation and provisioning of Web services from resource-constrained mobile devices.