Efficient WISH in an indoor environment

With the diffusion of wireless connections to Internet, the number of complex operations carried out from mobile users is increasing. To cope with bandwidth limitations and with disconnections, data caching is the most used technique. However for complex operation like dynamic searching a better solution is to take advantage of the multichannel property offered by CDMA protocol. In this case, cached documents can be allocated on distinguished channels in a dynamic way to obtain a better utilization of the radio communication links. We study a particular caching strategy suitable to be integrated with a radio-channel policy. We consider a semantic caching for intranet queries (or intranet searching) that takes advantage of data semantics by caching query answers instead of pages in order to exploit similarities between different queries. In fact, in a WLAN scenario, Internet activity is frequently composed by intranet searching operations characterized by local queries that aim to explore documents stored in a neighbor of the home site. We study benefits from a channel allocation strategy applied to intranet searching with semantic caching. Simulation experiments are carried out by considering an indoor scenario model where mobile clients perform keyword-based queries answered by local Web servers running application we refer to as WISH (Wireless Intranet SearcHing), an intranet searching tool based on semantic caching. The results show a 12% improvement in radio channel usage for 20% of users that share cached documents.