A Semantic Broadcast Scheme for a Mobile Environment Based on Dynamic Chunking

  • Authors:
  • Ken Lee;Hong Va Leong;Antonio Si

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Data broadcast is an effective approach to disseminate information from a database server to numerous mobile clients in a mobile environment. Since a broadcast session contains only a subset of the database items, a client might not be able to obtain all its items from the broadcast and is forced to request additional ones from the server on demand.In this paper, we describe a semantic-based broadcast approach which attaches a semantic description to each broadcast unit, called chunk, which is a cluster of data items, This allows a client to determine if a query can be answered entirely using a broadcast as well as defining the precise nature of the remaining items in the form of a 驴supplementary驴 query. Chunks could be of different sizes and are hierarchically organized.We propose a heuristic to schedule the broadcast order of the chunks to improve the tuning time, access time, and a new metric called data affinity index. The performance is evaluated via experiments based on a simulation model.