Broadcast data allocation for efficient access of multiple data items in mobile environments

  • Authors:
  • Guanling Lee;Shou-Chih Lo

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Mobile Networks and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The issue of data broadcast has received much attention in mobile computing. A periodic broadcast of frequently requested data can reduce the workload of the up-link channel and facilitate data access for the mobile user. Many approaches have been proposed to schedule data items for broadcasting. However, the issues of accessing multiple data items on the broadcast channel are less discussed. Two problems are discussed in this paper, that is, deciding the content of the broadcast channel based on the queries from the clients, and scheduling the data items to be broadcast. We will show that these two problems are NP-complete. Different heuristics to these problems are presented and compared through performance evaluations.