Efficient mobile content dissemination through broadcast and opportunistic networks

Wireless traffic has two features: people have common interests in the hottest contents, and a large amount of traffic belongs to non-realtime services. Exploiting these two features, we propose a content dissemination system, integrating broadcast network and opportunistic network. In the proposed system, popular contents are broadcasted through broadcast network and then disseminated to users through opportunistic network. Such system can significantly reduces the same contents repeated transmission and efficiently delivers contents to their clients. Using a Markov model, we theoretically analyze content dissemination delay of the proposed system.