Research Article
Efficient Multimedia Content Distribution to Mobile Communities
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_20, author={Filipe Pinto and \^{A}lvaro Gomes and Eduardo S\^{a}}, title={Efficient Multimedia Content Distribution to Mobile Communities}, proceedings={Mobile Networks and Management. Third International ICST Conference, MONAMI 2011, Aveiro, Portugal, September 21-23, 2011, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MONAMI}, year={2012}, month={9}, keywords={E-MBMS Efficiency EPS MBMS Multicast Multimedia UMTS}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_20} }- Filipe Pinto
Álvaro Gomes
Eduardo Sá
Year: 2012
Efficient Multimedia Content Distribution to Mobile Communities
MONAMI
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_20
Abstract
Mobile Operators have to meet the growing demand for multimedia services. The Social Networking trend and the Mobile TV are just a few examples of multimedia services that are seriously crowding the operators’ infrastructure. Since the content is to be shared by large groups of users it makes sense to use a point-to-multipoint technology to convey the multimedia information. MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service) and E-MBMS (Evolved MBMS) are the 3GPP systems used to delivery multimedia contents to mobile communities. But these technologies do not support power control which leads to an inefficient data distribution. This paper devises a mechanism that makes possible to reduce the transmitted power enabling an effective multimedia multicast data distribution to mobile groups leading to significant gains on the radio interface on next generation multimedia networks.