“…Within the scope of broadcasting, indexing data entities on a broadcast channel, broadcasting data along parallel channels, and scheduling data retrieval from parallel channels have been suggested as a means to further reduce the response time and energy consumption [2,4,5,9,11]. An index provides an estimated time of arrival for the data, thus allowing the mobile unit to operate in doze mode when not actively searching for or retrieving a data element from the broadcast [12,16].…”