Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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395605 | Information Sciences | 2007 | 18 Pages |
Wireless data broadcasting is a popular data delivery approach in mobile computing environments, where the broadcasting servers usually adopt indexing schemes for mobile clients to energy-efficiently access data on a wireless broadcast stream. However, conventional indexing schemes use primary key attribute values to construct tree structures. Therefore, these schemes do not support content-based retrieval queries such as partial-match queries and range-queries. This paper proposes an indexing method that supports content-based retrieval queries on a wireless data stream. The method uses a tree-structured index, called B2V-Tree, which is composed of bit-vectors that are generated from data records through multi-attribute hashing. Through analysis and experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed method is shown.