Google Cloud Messaging – A Review

Abstract

This paper exhibits a review on the timing execution of Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). We assess GCM in real world trials, and at a sensible-scale including a large number of real users. Our discoveries uncover that the GCM message conveying is erratic, specifically having a dependable association with Google’s GCM servers on the customer device does not ensure an opportune message arrival. Along these lines, GCM is not suitable for time touchy and/or “must-convey to-all” application situations. Then again, GCM conveys the push messages to a major segment of the subscribers (more than 40% in any analysis situation) in a sensible time span (in 10 seconds). In this manner, GCM may be a solid match for the application situations where irregular multicasting is adequate, e.g., crowdsourcing frameworks. Our outcomes give an exhaustive assessment of the GCM execution and will manage designers, and analysts to choose whether GCM is suitable for their proposed use cases.

Keywords: API CONSOL, C2DM, HTTP