Data Sets for Paper "A Leaner and Faster Web: How CBOR Can Improve Dynamic Content Encoding in JSON and DNS over HTTPS"

Lenders, Martine S.; Bormann, Carsten; Schmidt, Thomas C.; Wählisch, Matthias

Data Sets for Paper "A Leaner and Faster Web: How CBOR Can Improve Dynamic Content Encoding in JSON and DNS over HTTPS"

References to related material datacite.relatedItem.IsSupplementTo	M. S. Lenders, C. Bormann, T.C. Schmidt, and M. Wählisch, “A Leaner and Faster Web: How CBOR Can Improve Dynamic Content Encoding in JSON and DNS over HTTPS,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), August 2026. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2026.3722114
Description of the data datacite.resourceType	The files for each section are provided as `.tar.zst` archives: `03_json2cbor_eval.tar.zst` contains the files for Section III "Evaluating the Use of CBOR for Object Encoding", `04_cbor4dns_eval.tar.zst` contains the files for Section IV "Evaluating CBOR as DNS Message Format", `05_implementation.tar.zst` contains the files for Section V "Evaluating the Name Compressors", and `06_e2e_eval.tar.zst` contains the files for Section VI "End-to-end Validation". You can find a non-exhaustive list of the files contained these archives in `README.txt`. The `.md5sum` files can be used to check the integrity of the corresponding archive files.
Type of the data datacite.resourceTypeGeneral	Dataset
Total size of the dataset datacite.size	117548438945
Author dc.contributor.author	Lenders, Martine S.
Author dc.contributor.author	Bormann, Carsten
Author dc.contributor.author	Schmidt, Thomas C.
Author dc.contributor.author	Wählisch, Matthias
Upload date dc.date.accessioned	2026-08-27T16:22:29Z
Publication date dc.date.available	2026-08-27T16:22:29Z
Data of data creation dc.date.created	2026
Publication date dc.date.issued	2026-08-27
Abstract of the dataset dc.description.abstract	These data sets contain the files to recreate our evaluations using the code archived at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21790597. This is a supplement to the paper - M. S. Lenders, C. Bormann, T.C. Schmidt, and M. Wählisch, “A Leaner and Faster Web: How CBOR Can Improve Dynamic Content Encoding in JSON and DNS over HTTPS,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), August 2026. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2026.3722114 Paper abstract: The Internet community has taken major efforts to decrease latency on the World Wide Web with significant improvements in accelerating content transport and in compressing static content. Less attention, however, has been dedicated to compression of dynamic content. Such content is commonly provided by JSON and DNS over HTTPS. Dynamic content objects continue to grow in size, which increases latency and fosters the digital inequality. In this paper, we propose to mitigate this increase by utilizing Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR), a standard originally designed for the constrained Internet of Things (IoT) to restrict packet sizes and enable efficient encoding of data objects. We provide protocol design and three new data sets for the evaluation of dynamic content, DNS, and the loading of websites. Our key findings are the following: _(i)_ Switching the data representation from JSON to CBOR reduces data by up to 80%. This size reduction can decrease loading times by up to 13.8% when downloading large objects—even in local setups. _(ii)_ Enabling CBOR for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over CoAP (DoC) reduces packet sizes significantly. Compressing only names combined with unpacked CBOR achieves maximum gain of 52.2%, using more complex but still lightweight Packed CBOR allows minimizing packets by up to 95.5%. Our lean decoder for name compression can fit into as little as 314 bytes of build size. Our results clearly show the potential of CBOR outside of IoT scenarios. Parts of this research have already influenced work within the IETF.
Public reference to this page dc.identifier.uri	https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/handle/123456789/2842
Public reference to this page dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.25532/OPARA-1530
Publisher dc.publisher	Technische Universität Dresden
Licence dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	en
URI of the licence text dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Specification of the discipline(s) dc.subject.classification	4::44::409::409-04
Title of the dataset dc.title	Data Sets for Paper "A Leaner and Faster Web: How CBOR Can Improve Dynamic Content Encoding in JSON and DNS over HTTPS"