Usha J.

Work place: Department of Master of Computer Applications, RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru, 560059, India

E-mail: ushaj@rvce.edu.in

Website: https://orcid.org//0000-0003-4435-1913

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Biography

Dr. Usha J is a Professor in the Department of Master of Computer Applications (MCA) at RV College of Engineering (RVCE), Bengaluru, India. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering and possesses extensive academic and research experience in mobile computing, wireless networks, and edge intelligence. Her primary research focuses on dynamic ad-hoc networks, context-aware data management, and learning-driven resource optimization in bandwidth-constrained environments.

Author Articles
Semantic-Aware Partial Replication with Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Heterogeneous Data Management in Mobile Computing Networks

By Chandrani Chakravroty Usha J.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2026.05.08, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2026

Real-time mobile computing environments, such as smart cities and disaster-response networks, generate heterogeneous and high-velocity data streams in highly dynamic settings. Traditional full replication incurs prohibitive bandwidth overhead, while naive partial replication risks missing life-critical alerts. This paper presents Semantic-Aware Partial Replication (SAPR), a unified and lightweight framework that resolves this critical bandwidth-reliability trade-off by intelligently selecting the most valuable information for dissemination. SAPR is an integrated solution to combine RDF/SPARQL-based semantic ranking, real-time priority handling, and efficiency-per-byte optimization with Deep Q-Network (DQN) adaptive control. The framework computes a semantic priority score based on data type, urgency, and spatial context, and then replicates the most utility-efficient triples per byte. Crucially, a DQN agent dynamically adapts the replication factor (k) by observing network conditions like mobility dynamics, neighbor count, and alert frequency, learning to prioritize bandwidth conservation in congested environments. Using a 26-node mobile network simulation validated with real CRAWDAD taxi traces and a 10,000-triple RDF dataset, SAPR achieves an exceptional balance. The proposed RL-SAPR scheme demonstrates 82% bandwidth reduction while successfully maintaining 99% alert delivery accuracy, significantly outperforming both semantic and priority-only baselines. This work confirms the feasibility of combining semantic intelligence with reinforcement learning to enable reliable, bandwidth-efficient knowledge sharing in mission-critical, bandwidth-constrained mobile networks.

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