Title : 
Efficient Access to Composite M-services
         
        
            Author : 
Yang, Xu ; Bouguettaya, Athman ; Liu, Xumin
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Wireless Web services, also called mobile services or M-services, provide access to Web services through wireless networks. In this paper, we propose novel access methods and multi-channel organization for mobile users to effectively access composite M-services in wireless broadcast networks. We define a few semantics for accessing broadcast based M-services and study their impact on access efficiency.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Web services; mobile radio; radio networks; wireless channels; access method; composite M-service; mobile service; multichannel organization; wireless Web service; wireless broadcast network; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Computer science; Delay; Information retrieval; Mobile computing; Scalability; Web services; WiMAX; Wireless networks; M-services; access method; wireless broadcast;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Web Services, 2009. ICWS 2009. IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Los Angeles, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-0-7695-3709-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICWS.2009.55