A File Repair Scheme for UMTS MBMS Service

Author

Lai, Yen-Cheng ; Lin, Phone ; Lin, Yi-Bing ; Chang, Lu-Tsung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei

Volume

57

Issue

6

fYear

2008

Firstpage

3746

Lastpage

3756

Abstract

The 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) Technical Specification 23.246 proposed the multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) that efficiently multicasts multimedia content. During MBMS content transmission, data may be lost. Three file repair schemes were proposed to retransmit the corrupted MBMS data. However, these schemes may introduce extra data traffic or signaling overheads. This paper proposes the Reuse Bearer Service (RBS) file repair scheme to resolve this issue. We analyze the four file repair schemes by analytical models and simulation experiments. This paper shows that the proposed RBS scheme may significantly outperform the previously proposed schemes.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; multicast communication; multimedia communication; 3rd generation partnership project; Universal Mobile Telecommunication System; file repair; mobile core network; multimedia broadcast multicast service; reuse bearer service; File Repair; File repair; MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service); Mobile Core Network; Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS); Retransmission Scoping; UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System); Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); mobile core network; retransmission scoping;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2008.919612

Filename

4459271