Enhancing FEC application in LTE cellular networks

3rd Generation Partnership Project's (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) is focused on enhancing the Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA). Evolved-Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (e-MBMS) uses Multimedia Broadcast over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) operation in order to improve its performance. In MBSFN operation, data are transmitted simultaneously over the air from multiple tightly time-synchronized cells. Raptor codes have been standardized as the main application layer Forward Error Correction (FEC) method for e-MBMS due to the advanced error protection they offer and their overall performance. In this study, we investigate the application of FEC in MBSFN-enabled LTE cellular networks and we propose a new scheme that takes into account the properties of MBSFN in order to provide a more efficient operation of FEC during e-MBMS transmissions. The proposed scheme is compared with other file recovery methods and is evaluated against various network parameters in ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: WD
• Authors: Antonios G. Alexiou, Christos Bouras, Vasileios Kokkinos, Andreas Papazois, Georgia Tseliou
• Keywords: Error Correction, Single Frequency Network, Term Evolution, WD 2010, Wireless Networks