TY - GEN
T1 - Electron vs. Web
T2 - 17th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2024
AU - Thangadurai, Jonathan
AU - Saha, Priyeta
AU - Rupanya, Korawit
AU - Naeem, Rosheen
AU - Enriquez, Alejandro
AU - Scoccia, Gian Luca
AU - Martinez, Matias
AU - Malavolta, Ivano
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Nowadays, remote communication and collaboration apps are indispensable tools for working and recreation. Typically, they can be accessed either via a Web browser or by installing a desktop application. The desktop versions of the most popular communication apps are implemented using a framework called Electron. The primary objective of this research is to critically assess Electron-based communication apps against their Web-based equivalents, to quantify aspects related to energy efficiency and computational demands. An exhaustive multi-factor and multi-treatment experimental design was employed. This structure encompasses unique scenarios that account for platform types, modes of interaction, and interaction durations. The experiment demonstrates that there are differences, with varying effect sizes, in energy consumption and performance between Electron- and Web-based apps. While Electron-based apps exhibit higher CPU utilization and in some cases slightly higher network usage, their Web-based counterparts tend to consume more energy and memory under various configurations.
AB - Nowadays, remote communication and collaboration apps are indispensable tools for working and recreation. Typically, they can be accessed either via a Web browser or by installing a desktop application. The desktop versions of the most popular communication apps are implemented using a framework called Electron. The primary objective of this research is to critically assess Electron-based communication apps against their Web-based equivalents, to quantify aspects related to energy efficiency and computational demands. An exhaustive multi-factor and multi-treatment experimental design was employed. This structure encompasses unique scenarios that account for platform types, modes of interaction, and interaction durations. The experiment demonstrates that there are differences, with varying effect sizes, in energy consumption and performance between Electron- and Web-based apps. While Electron-based apps exhibit higher CPU utilization and in some cases slightly higher network usage, their Web-based counterparts tend to consume more energy and memory under various configurations.
KW - Empirical study
KW - Energy consumption
KW - Web browser
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-70245-7_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-70245-7_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85204558861
SN - 9783031702440
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 177
EP - 193
BT - Quality of Information and Communications Technology
A2 - Bertolino, Antonia
A2 - Pascoal Faria, João
A2 - Lago, Patricia
A2 - Semini, Laura
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 11 September 2024 through 13 September 2024
ER -