The Scientific World Journal (Jan 2014)

Adaptive Broadcasting Mechanism for Bandwidth Allocation in Mobile Services

  • Gwo-Jiun Horng,
  • Chi-Hsuan Wang,
  • Chih-Lun Chou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/735457
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2014

Abstract

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This paper proposes a tree-based adaptive broadcasting (TAB) algorithm for data dissemination to improve data access efficiency. The proposed TAB algorithm first constructs a broadcast tree to determine the broadcast frequency of each data and splits the broadcast tree into some broadcast wood to generate the broadcast program. In addition, this paper develops an analytical model to derive the mean access latency of the generated broadcast program. In light of the derived results, both the index channel’s bandwidth and the data channel’s bandwidth can be optimally allocated to maximize bandwidth utilization. This paper presents experiments to help evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy. From the experimental results, it can be seen that the proposed mechanism is feasible in practice.