Enhanced Cooperative Source Diversity for Multicast Services with Heterogeneous Coverage

Yan Chen; Shunqing Zhang; Vincent K. N.Lau; Guanding Yu; Zhifeng Zhao; Peiliang Qiu

ChinaCom2009-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

Enhanced Cooperative Source Diversity for Multicast Services with Heterogeneous Coverage

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    author={Yan Chen and Shunqing Zhang and Vincent K. N.Lau and Guanding Yu and Zhifeng Zhao and Peiliang Qiu},
    title={Enhanced Cooperative Source Diversity for Multicast Services with Heterogeneous Coverage},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-WCN},
    year={2009},
    month={11},
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    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339796}
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Yan Chen
Shunqing Zhang
Vincent K. N.Lau
Guanding Yu
Zhifeng Zhao
Peiliang Qiu
Year: 2009
Enhanced Cooperative Source Diversity for Multicast Services with Heterogeneous Coverage
CHINACOM2009-WCN
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339796

Yan Chen¹, Shunqing Zhang², Vincent K. N.Lau², Guanding Yu¹, Zhifeng Zhao¹, Peiliang Qiu¹

1: Institute of Information and Communication Engineering Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
2: Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Abstract

The achievable transmission rate of the multicast services is in general limited by the worst case mobile users within the multicast service sectors. Yet, unlike relay-assisted unicast service, there is a unique challenge in applying relay to multicast service. To be more specific, the multicast service shall be able to provide a uniform treatment for the mobile users within and without the relay coverage, which is known as the heterogeneous coverage issue. In this paper, a novel cooperative source diversity scheme is proposed to address the above issue. Compared with direct transmission and conventional cooperative source diversity scheme, the proposed approach achieves better link-layer performance in terms of packet error rate (PER) and system-level performance in terms of average spectrum efficiency and hence has practical design importance.

Published: 2009-11-20
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339796