Optimization problems in data broadcasting

Abstract

Broadcasting is an efficient way to disseminate information to a large number of users. With the fast development of wireless communication techniques, wireless data broadcasting has become a popular data dissemination method. The major performance concerns for any wireless data broadcast systems are response time and energy consumption. Various optimization methods for different aspects of data broadcasting systems have been developed in order to improve the broadcast system performance. This chapter gives a complete overview of different optimization issues in data broadcasting. In this chapter, optimization problems and corresponding algorithms and solutions for data scheduling, indexing, retrieval, and coverage are discussed in various types of data broadcast systems, including single-channel, multichannel, push-based, and on-demand data broadcasting.