Power counting for optimized capacity in MBMS enabled UTRAN

– MBMS bearer services can be provided in each cell by either Point-to-Point (one Dedicated channel for each User Equipment (UE)) or Point-to-Multipoint (one Common channel shared by all the UEs) transmission mode, but requires a decision to be made between the two approaches. As defined in 3GPP TS 25.346 specifications, this decision is made by the Radio Network Controller (RNC). Thus far, the fundamental criterion used to make this decision has been the number of MBMS users in a Cell. Periodically and on a per Cell basis, the RNC counts the number of MBMS users and based on an operator-predefined threshold, establishes a P-t-M transmission mode, if the number of counted MBMS users in a Cell exceeds this threshold, or a P-tP transmission mode, otherwise. In this paper we extend our

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ISCC
• Authors: Andreas Panayides, Christophoros Christophorou, Josephine Antoniou, Andreas Pitsillides, Vasos Vassiliou
• Keywords: Communications, ISCC 2008, MBMS Bearer Services, MBMS Users, Transmission Mode