基于数据访问概率的广播索引技术

在移动计算中,如何节约移动设备的电源是一个重要的研究方向。采用索引广播的方式可以使移动设备选择性地监听信道,从而减少了电源的消耗。该文提出了为广播数据建立基于访问概率的索引技术,并分固定扇出的非平衡索引树和可变扇出的索引树两种情况讨论如何降低平均访问代价。针对这两种情况,分别设计了构造索引树的算法。     

多盘广播的偏斜索引算法

在移动环境中,多盘广播是被广泛使用的数据广播调度算法之一。为广播数据建立索引可以使移动客户机选择性地监听信道,以减少电源消耗,但过多地插入索引会增加数据访问时间。针对该问题,为多盘广播建立偏斜索引,设计索引树构造算法和广播数据的索引树算法。与可变扇出算法相比,多盘广播的偏斜索引算法需要的平均访问时间和平均调谐时间较短。     

A concurrency control scheme for mobile transactions in broadcast disk environments

Broadcast disk technique has been often used to disseminate frequently requested data efficiently to a large volume of mobile clients over wireless channels. In broadcast disk environments, a server often broadcasts different data items with differing frequencies to reflect the skewed data access patterns of mobile clients. Previously proposed concurrency control methods for mobile transactions in wireless broadcast environments are focused on the mobile transactions with uniform data access patterns. These protocols perform poorly in broadcast disk environments where the data access patterns of mobile transactions are skewed. In broadcast disk environments, the time length of a broadcast cycle usually becomes large to reflect the skewed data access patterns. This will often cause read-only transactions to access old data items rather than the latest data items. Furthermore, updating mobile transactions will be frequently aborted and restarted in the final validation stage due to the update conflict of the same data items with high access frequencies. This problem will increase the average response time of the update mobile transactions and waste the uplink communication bandwidth. In this paper, we extend the existing FBOCC concurrency control method to efficiently handle mobile transactions with skewed data access patterns in broadcast disk environments. Our method allows read-only transactions to access the more updated data, and reduces the average response time of updating transactions through early aborts and restarts. Our method also reduces the amount of uplink communication bandwidth for the final validation of the update transactions. We present an in-depth experimental analysis of our method by comparing with existing concurrency control protocols. Our performance analysis shows that it significantly decreases the average response time and the amount of uplink bandwidths over existing methods.     

Optimizing index allocation for sequential data broadcasting in wireless mobile computing

Energy saving is one of the most important issues in wireless mobile computing. Among others, one viable approach to achieving energy saving is to use an indexed data organization to broadcast data over wireless channels to mobile units. Using indexed broadcasting, mobile units can be guided to the data of interest efficiently and only need to be actively listening to the broadcasting channel when the relevant information is present. We explore the issue of indexing data with skewed access for sequential broadcasting in wireless mobile computing. We first propose methods to build index trees based on access frequencies of data records. To minimize the average cost of index probes, we consider two cases: one for fixed index fanouts and the other for variant index fanouts, and devise algorithms to construct index trees for both cases. We show that the cost of index probes can be minimized not only by employing an imbalanced index tree that is designed in accordance with data access skew, but also by exploiting variant fanouts for index nodes. Note that, even for the same index tree, different broadcasting orders of data records will lead to different average data access times. To address this issue, we develop an algorithm to determine the optimal order for sequential data broadcasting to minimize the average data access time. Performance evaluation on the algorithms proposed is conducted. Examples and remarks are given to illustrate our results.     

Exploiting skewed access and energy-efficient algorithm to improve the performance of wireless data broadcasting

As wireless networks become an integral component of the current communication infrastructure, energy efficiency is a crucial design consideration because of the limited battery life of mobile terminals. Data broadcast is an effective data dissemination method in mobile environments. The current air indexing schemes for data broadcast focused on energy efficiency (reducing tuning time) only, and current broadcast scheduling schemes reduce access latency through nonflat data broadcast to improve only responsiveness. Few studies have addressed energy efficiency and responsiveness issues concurrently. This study proposes a fast data access scheme that concurrently supports the energy saving protocol, which constructs broadcast channels according to the access frequency of each type of message to improve energy efficiency in mobile devices. The windmill scheduling algorithm that is presented in this paper was used to organize all types of messages in the broadcast channel in the most symmetrical distribution, to reduce tuning and access time. The performance of the proposed mechanism was analyzed, and the efficiency improvement over existing methods was demonstrated numerically. Results indicate that the proposed mechanism is capable of improving both tuning and access time because of the presence of skewness in the access distribution among disseminated messages.     

An energy-efficient and access latency optimized indexing scheme for wireless data broadcast

Data broadcast is an attractive data dissemination method in mobile environments. To improve energy efficiency, existing air indexing schemes for data broadcast have focused on reducing tuning time only, i.e., the duration that a mobile client stays active in data accesses. On the other hand, existing broadcast scheduling schemes have aimed at reducing access latency through nonflat data broadcast to improve responsiveness only. Not much work has addressed the energy efficiency and responsiveness issues concurrently. This paper proposes an energy-efficient indexing scheme called MHash that optimizes tuning time and access latency in an integrated fashion. MHash reduces tuning time by means of hash-based indexing and enables nonflat data broadcast to reduce access latency. The design of hash function and the optimization of bandwidth allocation are investigated in depth to refine MHash. Experimental results show that, under skewed access distribution, MHash outperforms state-of-the-art air indexing schemes and achieves access latency close to optimal broadcast scheduling.     

移动计算环境中的自适应混合广播

提出一种自适应混合广播算法。在周期广播数据分配时采用多信道非均匀分配,使高访问率的数据获得高广播频率。在确定周期广播数据和联机请求数据个数时考虑联机请求信道响应时间和访问率之间的关系,从而在少量比较次数后获得数据最佳分割点。实验结果表明,该算法可以根据系统负载和用户访问模式的变化动态调节信道和数据的分配,性能优于纯广播和纯基于请求的广播,访问时间少于现有的混合数据广播方式。     

An efficient nonuniform index in the wireless broadcast environments

Data broadcast is an efficient dissemination method to deliver information to mobile clients through the wireless channel. It allows a huge number of the mobile clients simultaneously access data in the wireless environments. In real-life applications, more popular data may be frequently accessed by clients than less popular ones. Under such scenarios, Acharya et al.’s Broadcast Disks algorithm (BD) allocates more popular data appeared more times in a broadcast period than less popular ones, i.e., the nonuniform broadcast, and provides a good performance on reducing client waiting time. However, mobile devices should constantly tune in to the wireless broadcast channel to examine data, consuming a lot of energy. Using index technologies on the broadcast file can reduce a lot of energy consumption of the mobile devices without significantly increasing client waiting time. In this paper, we propose an efficient nonuniform index called the skewed index, SI, over BD. The proposed algorithm builds an index tree according to skewed access patterns of clients, and allocates index nodes for the popular data more times than those for the less popular ones in a broadcast cycle. From our experimental study, we have shown that our proposed algorithm outperforms the flexible index and the flexible distributed index.     

移动环境中自适应的XML广播索引

针对如何减少移动计算环境中XML数据广播的调谐时间和访问时间的问题,提出一种基于自适应索引的XML广播调度算法XAISA。它能根据系统负荷动态调整数据块的度,从而达到性能最优化。性能分析和实验比较表明,该算法能以极小的平均访问时间的代价大大减少平均调谐时间及接收XML广播数据的时间。     

Query processing optimization in broadcasting XML data in mobile communications

Todays, XML as a de facto standard is used to broadcast data over mobile wireless networks. In these networks, mobile clients send their XML queries over a wireless broadcast channel and recieve their desired XML data from the channel. However, downloading the whole XML data by a mobile device is a challenge since the mobile devices used by clients are small battery powered devices with limited resources. To meet this challenge, the XML data should be indexed in such a way that the desired XML data can be found easily and only such data can be downloaded instead of the whole XML data by the mobile clients. Several indexing methods are proposed to selectively access the XML data over an XML stream. However, the existing indexing methods cause an increase in the size of XML stream by including some extra information over the XML stream. In this paper, a new XML stream structure is proposed to disseminate the XML data over a broadcast channel by grouping and summarizing the structural information of XML nodes. By summarizing such information, the size of XML stream can be reduced and therefore, the latency of retrieving the desired XML data over a wirless broadcast channel can be reduced. The proposed XML stream structure also contains indexes in order to skip from the irrelevant parts over the XML stream. It therefore can reduce the energy consumption of mobile devices in downloading the results of XML queries. In addition, our proposed XML stream structure can process different types of XML queries and experimental results showed that it improves the performace of XML query processing over the XML data stream compared to the existing research works in terms of access and tuning times.

     

Power-aware data retrieval protocols for indexed broadcast parallel channels

In pervasive and mobile computing environments, “timely and reliable” access to public data requires methods that allow quick, efficient, and low-power access to information to overcome technological limitations of wireless communication and access devices. The literature suggests broadcasting (one-way communication) as an effective way to disseminate the public data to mobile devices. Within the scope of broadcasting, the response time and energy consumption of retrieval methods have been used as the performance metrics for measuring the effectiveness of different access methods. The hardware and architecture of the mobile units offer different operational modes that consume different energy levels. Along with these architectural and hardware enhancements, techniques such as indexing, broadcasting along parallel channels, and efficient allocation and retrieval protocols can be used to minimize power consumption and access latency.In general, the retrieval methods attempt to determine the optimal access pattern for retrieving the requested data objects on parallel broadcast channels. The employment of heuristics provides a methodology for such ideal path planning solutions. Using informative heuristics and intelligent searches of an access forest can provide a prioritized cost evaluation of access patterns for requested data objects and, hence, an optimal path for the access of requested data on broadcast air channels.This paper examines two scheduling methods that along with a set of heuristics generate and facilitate the access patterns for retrieving data objects in the presence of conflicts in an indexed parallel broadcast channel environment. A simulation of the proposed schemes is presented for analyzing the relationship between response time and power consumption.     

基于重复热点数据的CF广播结构改进算法*

针对现有广播结构构建中对数据访问概率倾斜度考虑不足的问题,在CF索引树的基础上提出了一种基于数据倾斜度的广播构建算法。该算法充分考虑热点数据的请求,根据数据在CF索引树中所处位置的不同,在一个广播周期内重复广播热点数据及其对应的索引节点,尽量减少移动用户的访问时间。最后通过实验验证了改进后广播结构的有效性。     

An efficient stream structure for broadcasting the encrypted XML data in mobile wireless broadcast channels

In mobile wireless broadcast networks, XML data is encrypted before it is sent over the broadcast channel in order to ensure the confidentiality of XML data. In these networks, mobile clients must not have access to all the XML data; rather they should have access to some parts of the XML data that are relevant to them and to which they are authorized to have access. In this paper, a new encrypted XML data stream structure is proposed which supports the confidentiality of XML data over the broadcast channel. In our proposed stream structure, the size of encrypted XML data stream is reduced by grouping the paths, XML nodes, texts, and attributes together. The proposed structure includes several indexes to skip from irrelevant data over the broadcast channel. The experimental results demonstrate that the use of our proposed stream structure efficiently disseminates XML data in mobile wireless broadcast networks in a secure manner and the indexes in our proposed stream structure improve the performance of XML query processing over the encrypted XML data stream.

     

Semantic Access to Multichannel M-Services

M-services provide mobile users wireless access to Web services. In this paper, we present a novel infrastructure for supporting M-services in wireless broadcast systems. The proposed infrastructure provides a generic framework for mobile users to look up, access, and execute Web services over wireless broadcast channels. Access efficiency is an important issue in wireless broadcast systems. We discuss different semantics that have impact on the access efficiency for composite M-services. A multiprocess workflow is proposed for effectively accessing composite M-services from multiple broadcast channels based on these semantics. We also present and compare different broadcast channel organizations for M-services and wireless data. Analytical models are provided for these channel organizations. Practical studies are presented to demonstrate the impact of different semantics and channel organizations on the access efficiency.     

An error-resilient and tunable distributed indexing scheme for wireless data broadcast

Access efficiency and energy conservation are two critical performance concerns in a wireless data broadcast system. We propose in this paper a novel parameterized index called the exponential index that has a linear yet distributed structure for wireless data broadcast. Based on two tuning knobs, index base and chunk size, the exponential index can be tuned to optimize the access latency with the tuning time bounded by a given limit, and vice versa. The client access algorithm for the exponential index under unreliable broadcast is described. A performance analysis of the exponential index is provided. Extensive ns-2-based simulation experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance under various link error probabilities. Simulation results show that the exponential index substantially outperforms the state-of-the-art indexes. In particular, it is more resilient to link errors and achieves more performance advantages from index caching. The results also demonstrate its great flexibility in trading access latency with tuning time.     

Effective Generation of Data Broadcast Schedules with Different Allocation Numbers for Multiple Wireless Channels

Existing methods of scheduling data items over multiple wireless broadcast channels focus on the assignment of a data item to a channel. However, data items are not allocated more than once per broadcast cycle to a single channel. Our scheme considers the numbers of copies of a data item that should be allocated in the context of the channel assignment problem and aims to reduce the average data access time by allocating a popular data item more than once per cycle to the channel to which it is assigned. The number of times that each data item is allocated reflects its access probability. Simulation results show that our scheme reduces the average expected delay, especially when there are few channels.     

无线环境中不均匀广播算法研究

阿查里亚的多盘碟片算法实现了在一段广播时间内,将热门数据分发次数多于较冷门的数据,即不均匀广播,在降低用户等待时间方面提供了很好的表现。然而,移动设备必须不断地调整无线广播频道去检查数据,消耗了大量的能量。在广播的文件上使用索引技术,可以在无显著增加等待时间的前提下,大大降低移动设备的能量消耗。本文在多盘广播算法的基础上,提出一种倾斜索引(SI)的高效不均匀索引。这种算法根据用户的倾斜访问模式建立了一个索引树,在一个广播循环内,多次分发热门索引节点,少分发非热门索引节点。     

PS+Pre/Post: A novel structure and access mechanism for wireless XML stream supporting twig pattern queries

XML data broadcast is an efficient way to disseminate XML data to a large number of mobile clients in mobile wireless networks. Recently, several indexing methods have been proposed to improve the performance of XML query processing in terms of access time and tuning time over XML streams. However, existing indexing methods cannot process twig pattern XML queries. In this paper, we propose a novel structure for streaming XML data called PS+Pre/Post by integrating the path summary technique and the pre/post labeling scheme. Our proposed XML stream structure exploits the benefits of the path summary technique and the pre/post labeling scheme to efficiently process different types of XML queries over the broadcast stream. Experimental results show that our proposed XML stream structure improves the performance of access time and tuning time in processing different types of XML queries.     

An Efficient Algorithm for Near Optimal Data Allocation on Multiple Broadcast Channels

In a wireless environment, the bandwidth of the channels and the energy of the portable devices are limited. Data broadcast has become an excellent method for efficient data dissemination. In this paper, the problem for generating a broadcast program of a set of data items with the associated access frequencies on multiple channels is explored. In our approach, a minimal expected average access time of the broadcast data items is first derived. The broadcast program is then generated, which minimizes the minimal expected average access time. Simulation is performed to compare the performance of our approach with two existing approaches. The result of the experiments shows that our approach outperforms others and is in fact close to the optimal.     

数据广播调度自适应信道划分与分配方法

随着移动网络的不断发展,移动终端设备的计算能力与日俱增,越来越多的用户倾向于通过移动网络获取信息资源,这使得实时按需数据广播面临新的挑战：（1）数据内容和规模的多样化;（2）用户请求的实时性与需求多样性使得热点数据增加,直接导致广播数据总量的剧增;（3）用户对服务质量和水平的要求越来越高.当前的研究成果主要集中在固定信道模型和算法上,一定程度上忽略了当前数据广播调度环境的变化.固定信道存在如下问题：（1）局限于特定的网络,缺乏通用性;（2）信道大小、个数不能随着网络环境的变化而自动调整,降低了广播效率.基于以上考虑,对实时按需数据广播调度的自适应信道划分和分配进行研究,提出一种自适应信道划分与分配方法OCSM （optimized channel split method）,其根据数据请求特征的不同,实时自适应地调整信道个数和大小,从而提高系统敏感性、鲁棒性以及广播效率.该方法包括：（1）广播数据均衡聚类算法WASC （weight average and size clusteralgorithm）,其挖掘数据特征,为信道划分提供依据;（2）数据项广播优先级评定算法R×W/SL,其实时评定数据项调度优先级;（3）信道划分与分配算法CSA （channel split algorithm）.实验包括两个方面：（1）确定不同数据项大小和请求截止期分布下的信道划分策略,并分析聚类算法中聚类距离K在不同情况下的最佳取值以及最佳信道划分;（2）验证自适应信道划分与分配策略的有效性,并通过对比实验验证在不同情况下OCSM的有效性.实验结果表明：OCSM优于其他调度算法,并具有较强的自适应.