An enhanced mechanism for efficient assignment of multiple MBMS sessions towards LTE

The provision of rich multimedia services, such as Mobile TV, is considered of key importance for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) proliferation in mobile market. To this direction, Evolved Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (E-MBMS) that targets at the efficient delivery of multimedia data from a single source entity to multiple destinations, is envisaged to play an instrumental role during LTE standardization process. However, both LTE and E-MBMS performance are limited by the base station’s transmission power. As an aftermath, efficient power allocation techniques should be implemented so as to ensure the mass provision of multimedia applications to mobile users. This paper proposes a novel mechanism for efficient radio bearer selection during E-MBMS transmissions in LTE networks. The proposed mechanism is based on the concept of transport channels combination in any cell of the network. Most significantly, the mechanism exploits the performance enhancements emerged from Multipl...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MSWIM
• Authors: Antonios G. Alexiou, Christos Bouras, Vasileios Kokkinos
• Keywords: LTE Networks, LTE Standardization Process, Modelling And Simulation, MSWIM 2009, Radio Bearer Selection