This work proposes new power-saving strategies for mobile access to the Web. User mobility is a key factor in the evolution
of Web services. Unfortunately, the legacy approach for Web access is very inefficient when applied to mobile users. One of
the critical issues is the inefficient usage of energetic resources when adopting the legacy TCP/IP architecture for Web access
from mobile devices. In this paper we address this problem by proposing a new architecture, namely PS- Web, which works at the transport layer and exploits some knowledge about the application behavior. PS-Web is transparent with
respect to the application and independent from the sub-network technology. We implemented a prototype of PS-Web. Experimental
results provided by this prototype have shown that a relevant energy savings (about 70% on average) can be achieved with respect
to the legacy TCP/IP approach. Furthermore, power saving is obtained without a significant degradation in the QoS perceived
by the users. Specifically, PS-Web introduces almost neglible additional delays (with respect to the legacy approach) in the
downloading of a Web page.