E-mail over low bandwidth networks.ppt.pptVIP

E-mail over low bandwidth networks Indika Wasala Sasanka Usgoda Arachchi Dr. Gihan Dias Contents Objective Research Problem Previous Work at UoM Other Related work Current Project Future Work References Objective To optimize email communication over Low Bandwidth networks. Problem Dialup internet connections in rural areas. ADSL connections with shared bandwidth. Expensive Leased Lines. CDMA/GPRS connections. Download delays Large attachments Previous work at UoM On-the-fly Inter-proxy Data Compression for Web Access - Pradeepa Gurusinghe, Gihan Dias, Vishaka Nanayakkara A Market-Based Approach to Control Web Bandwidth Usage - Chamara Dissanayake, Gihan Dias Dynamic Bandwidth Negotiation among Web Proxies - Sumith Gamage, Gihan Dias Other Related Work draft-ietf-lemonade-compress-04 COMPRESS extension IMAP Connection is compressed effectively and efficiently. to reduce the bandwidth usage of IMAP Commands CAPABILITY Response COMPRESS=DEFLATE COMPRESS DEFLATE Response OK DEFLATE active Current Project E-mail over low bandwidth networks Solution IMAP proxy server Scope IMAP Proxy client functions Defining filter rule set Assignment of priorities to emails. Compression of IMAP requests Decompression of IMAP responses Sending decompressed responses to client Sending compressed requests to server Scope cont.. IMAP Proxy Server functions Email filtering Selecting a pre-fetch model Compression of IMAP responses Different compressors for different content-types Decompression of IMAP requests and sending to IMAP server. Spam filtering Solution Components Mail server : qmail () IMAP Server : binc imap () IMAP proxy : imapproxy () All are open source components. Proxy Client Configuration Filtering Rules Configured in proxy client Using a simple UI Using config file header field:”matching string” priority image compression on/off from:”x@” 1 0 Proxy Client Configuration contd.. Priorities and Pre-fetching Priority 1 : Pre-fetch whole message Priority 2 : Pre-fetch f