Abstract-Based on the common interest of mobile users (MUs) in a social group, the dissemination of content across the social group is studied as a powerful supplement to conventional cellular communication with the goal of improving the delay performance of the content dissemination process. The content popularity is modeled by a Zipf distribution to characterize the MUs' different interests in different contents. The factor of altruism (FA) terminology is introduced for quantifying the willingness of content owners to share their content. We model the dissemination process of a specific packet by a pure-birth-based Markov chain and evaluate the statistical properties of both the network's dissemination delay as well as of the individual user-delay. Compared to the conventional base station (BS)-aided multicast, our scheme is capable of reducing the average dissemination delay by about 56.5%. Moreover, in contrast to the BS-aided multicast, increasing the number of MUs in the target social group is capable of reducing the average individual user-delay by 44.1% relying on our scheme. Furthermore, our scheme is more suitable for disseminating a popular piece of content. Index Terms-Content dissemination, content popularity, factor of altruism, pure-birth based Markov chain, delay analysis.
In REF , a social group multicast scheme in supplement to the cellular network is proposed for delay-sensitive file transmissions.
Delay Analysis of Social Group Multicast-Aided Content Dissemination in Cellular System
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Computer Science