COS: client oriented scheduling for multi-channel on-demand broadcast

  • Authors:
  • Kai Liu;Victor C. S. Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong;City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

On-demand broadcast is an effective data dissemination approach in mobile computing. Recently, a large number of mobile applications have been developed in broadcast systems equipped with multiple channels. Therefore, it becomes a critical performance consideration for the underlying scheduling algorithm to utilize bandwidth efficiently in multi-channel on-demand broadcast environments. However, we find that existing scheduling algorithms fail to utilize bandwidth efficiently in this new environment and it results in a poor system performance. In this paper, we examine this bandwidth utilization problem. Based on the observation, we propose a bandwidth-efficient scheduling algorithm called COS in multi-channel on-demand broadcast environments. Results from our simulation study demonstrate the superiority of COS.