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Delivering Multimedia Services in MBSFN Areas Over 5G Networks: A Performance Analysis

Federica Rinaldi, Pasquale Scopelliti, Antonio Iera, Antonella Molinaro, Giuseppe Araniti

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Abstract

The ever-increasing demand for video and multimedia content over mobile networks leads to high requirements in terms of data rate and radio resource management. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (eMBMS) is one of the most viable solution to meet such requirements. MBMS Single-Frequency Networks (MBSFN) improve the efficiency of eMBMS transmitting the same content at the same time over the same frequencies. This requires very challenging radio resource management and Area Formation procedures. In this work we analyzed the performance of a Area Formation algorithm, which has the aim to maximize the aggregate data rate of the system by serving users with poor channel conditions via unicast links. Our study aims to evaluate the impact that the band used to serve such users has on the performance of the algorithm by considering two different case and different background traffic values.

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The ever-increasing demand for video and multimedia content over mobile networks leads to high requirements in terms of data rate and radio resource management. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (eMBMS) is one of the most viable solution to meet such requirements. MBMS Single-Frequency Networks (MBSFN) improve the efficiency of eMBMS transmitting the same content at the same time over the same frequencies. This requires very challenging radio resource management and Area Formation procedures. In this work we analyzed the performance of a Area Formation algorithm, which has the aim to maximize the aggregate data rate of the system by serving users with poor channel conditions via unicast links. Our study aims to evaluate the impact that the band used to serve such users has on the performance of the algorithm by considering two different case and different background traffic values.

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The ever-increasing demand for video and multimedia content over mobile networks leads to high requirements in terms of data rate and radio resource management. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (eMBMS) is one of the most viable solution to meet such requirements. MBMS Single-Frequency Networks (MBSFN) improve the efficiency of eMBMS transmitting the same content at the same time over the same frequencies. This requires very challenging radio resource management and Area Formation procedures. In this work we analyzed the performance of a Area Formation algorithm, which has the aim to maximize the aggregate data rate of the system by serving users with poor channel conditions via unicast links. Our study aims to evaluate the impact that the band used to serve such users has on the performance of the algorithm by considering two different case and different background traffic values.

Key concepts: Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service, Unicast, Computer science, Single-frequency network, Multicast, Computer network, Digital multimedia broadcasting, Cellular network

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