Allocating data for broadcasting over wireless channels subject to transmission errors

  • Authors:
  • Paolo Barsocchi;Alan A. Bertossi;M. Cristina Pinotti;Francesco Potortì

  • Affiliations:
  • ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy 56124;Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 40127;Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy 06123;ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy 56124

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Broadcasting is an efficient and scalable way of transmitting data over wireless channels to an unlimited number of clients. In this paper the problem of allocating data to multiple channels is studied, assuming flat data scheduling per channel and the presence of unrecoverable channel transmission errors. The objective is that of minimizing the average expected delay experienced by the clients. Two different channel error models are considered: the Bernoulli model and the simplified Gilbert---Elliot one. In the former model, each packet transmission has the same probability to fail and each transmission error is independent from the others. In the latter one, bursts of erroneous or error-free packet transmissions due to wireless fading channels are modeled. Particular cases are detected where optimal solutions can be found in polynomial time. For general cases, simulations show that good sub-optimal solutions can be found on benchmarks whose item popularities follow Zipf distributions.