Distributed Broadcast Scheduling for Gain of Mobile Users

Broadcast Services is one of the most anticipated Internet services. Different from the conventional client-server based ones, information is provided to certain users according to some criteria for avoidance of wasted bandwidth and processing power. Location based broadcasting has been proposed; however, gain from most information is time-dependent and broadcasting schedule is determined based on the future locations of mobile users. This paper proposes a novel distributed broadcast scheduling for achievement of higher gain of mobile users. Here, stationary base stations and its broadcast time duration are selected based on the expected gain of mobile users. In addition, information is divided into multiple chunks which are broadcasted by a sequence of stationary base stations to share the base stations among multiple information providers.