Title: Hoarding content for mobile learning

Authors: Anna Trifonova, Marco Ronchetti

Addresses: Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Trento, 38050 via Sommarive 14, Povo (TN), Italy. ' Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Trento, 38050 via Sommarive 14, Povo (TN), Italy

Abstract: M-learning is currently a rapidly expanding domain. Provoked by the fast advances of mobile technologies, different applications and systems are developed continuously. Here we address the hoarding problem, which is weakly explored before but is a particularly important issue in the mobile domain, and a solution should be included in every system with a large quantity of data. Hoarding is the process of automatically selecting learning content, which is to be prepared and prefetched on the mobile device|s local memory for the following offline session. We describe the hoarding problem and the strategy to solve it with the goal of providing an efficient hoarding solution.

Keywords: mobile learning; hoarding; offline access; learning content; disconnected operation; caching; prefetching; mobile communications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2006.008952

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2006 Vol.4 No.4, pp.459 - 476

Published online: 06 Feb 2006 *

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