An efficient interaction framework for mobile web services

Abstract

The increased number of smart phone users requesting information from the Internet has resulted in times when the average access time (the time a user must wait to download his/her requested service) is quite lengthy.The use of the wireless carrier's broadcast channels to transmit mobile web services has been proven to be an economical way to handle the increased volume of users. However, the existing approaches that minimize the average access time fail to take into account the dynamic popularities of web services when design the allocation of service data among broadcast channels. This paper presents an efficient interaction framework that provides guidance of optimizing service data allocations among multiple broadcast channels. This framework incorporates both current usage data (i.e., popularity over specified time period) and the size of service data for channel allocation, thus resulting in the lowest average access time. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed solution have been demonstrated in the conducted experimental study. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.