GPRS networks which have more restricted bandwidth compared to WiFi and where big blocks increased packet loss.
The average time obtained of transmitting files of 1.3MB
from different mobiles devices to an external storage server
connected on Internet using Wi-Fi was 8.3s. This measure
helped us to calculate the average transmission time of each
algorithm in mobile devices with dierent le sizes and memory sizes. The hit ratio and average transmission time obtained in each replacement policy showed that, if the Swapper replaces files based on the largest file size (LFS) obtains
the best hit ratio, but it also obtains the greatest average
transmission time. These results could be a good decision
point when the cost of the wireless communication depends
on time consumption (like GMS networks). Most of the
cases the wireless communication service is calculated based
on bandwidth consumption. These simulations gave us insights at the moment of deciding which algorithm could be
implemented like a caching service for our middleware, since
it is important to consider all of the costs in terms of time
and bandwidth consumption.