Data items ordering scheme for multi channel data broadcasting in a mobile computing environment

Data broadcasting is a scalable mechanism for information dissemination in a mobile computing environment. However, a very large number of broadcast items increase the access time of mobile clients to obtain data item of interest. In this paper, we propose a novel broadcast ordering scheme, which aims to minimize query access time of mobile clients. The proposed scheme considers single and multiple data items request and involves data broadcasting over multiple wireless channels. Moreover, it incorporates a certain degree of replication so that the most frequently accessed data items will be broadcast more often. A simulation model is developed to analyze the performance of the proposed scheme. We found that the scheme provides a substantially lower access time as compared to the conventional method.