Multimedia broadcasting in LTE networks

Antonios Alexiou; Christos Bouras; Vasileios Kokkinos; Andreas Papazois; George Tsichritzis

doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-0017-1.ch011

Multimedia broadcasting in LTE networks

Antonios Alexiou, Christos Bouras, Vasileios Kokkinos, Andreas Papazois, George Tsichritzis

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Long Term Evolution (LTE) constitutes the latest step before the 4th generation (4G) of radio technologies designed to increase the capacity and speed of mobile communications. To support Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS), LTE offers the functionality to transmit MBMS over Single Frequency Network (MBSFN), where a time-synchronized common waveform is transmitted from multiple cells for a given duration. In MBSFN transmissions, the achieved Spectral Efficiency (SE) is mainly determined by the Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) selected. This study proposes and evaluates four approaches for the selection of the MCS that will be utilized for the transmission of the MBSFN data. The evaluation of the approaches is performed for different users' distribution and from a SE perspective. Based on the SE measurement, the approach that either maximizes or achieves a target SE for the corresponding users' distribution is determined.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Wireless Multi-Access Environments and Quality of Service Provisioning
Subtitle of host publication	Solutions and Application
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	269-289
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	9781466600171
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0017-1.ch011
State	Published - 2012

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