A Serializable Concurrency Control Protocol in Wireless Broadcast Enviroments

The issue of data consistency in mobile broadcast environments characterized by its asymmetric communication capacity is studied. For the protocol O-PreH, many necessary aborts need waiting for the validation on server, and therefore a lot of expensive upstream communication capacity is wasted. For the protocol PVTO, the validation condition is too strict, and thus many unnecessary aborts are induced and the degree of concurrency is restricted. In this paper, a new serializable concurrency control protocol BCC-SR is proposed. Compared with PVTO and O-PreH, the protocol BCC-SR performs better pre-validation processes on mobile hosts and their server, resulting in both less wasted resources and a smaller number of aborts. The simulation results confirm that the proposed protocol could improve the average response time of mobile transactions significantly.