IMS-MBMS Convergence for Next Generation Mobile Networks

Author

Ikram, A. ; Zafar, M. ; Baker, N. ; Chiang, R.

Author_Institution

UWE, Bristol

fYear

2007

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

56

Abstract

Mobile and wireless communication standards and technologies have witnessed rapid enhancements in the last few years. Dynamic, interactive, rich content and location based services such as IPTV, multimedia conferencing, buddy lists and presence have emerged. However, multimedia services often prove to be heavy on radio resources and multicast or broadcast is a resource efficient transmission mode. Currently, IMS only supports unicast transmission, so 3GPP MBMS is selected as the broadcast/multicast delivery technology. In this paper, we propose a converged IMS and MBMS architecture, designed to support the next generation of multimedia multicast services. A comprehensive network entity design is also elaborated. This work is carried out as part of EU-IST project C-MOBILE (IST-2005-27423).

Keywords

3G mobile communication; IP networks; convergence; multicast communication; multimedia communication; 3GPP; IP multimedia services; IPTV; buddy lists; multimedia broadcast multicast services; next generation mobile networks; Communication standards; Communications technology; Convergence; Digital multimedia broadcasting; IPTV; Multimedia communication; Next generation networking; Radio broadcasting; Unicast; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2007. NGMAST '07. The 2007 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cardiff

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2878-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NGMAST.2007.4343400

Filename

4343400