A Unified Broadcast Layer for Horizon 2020 Delivery of Multimedia Services

Author

Crussiere, M. ; Douillard, Catherine ; Gallard, Christian ; Le Bot, Marie ; Ros, Benjamin ; Bouttier, Arnaud ; Untersee, Alain

Author_Institution

INSA-IETR Lab., Rennes, France

Volume

60

Issue

2

fYear

2014

fDate

41791

Firstpage

193

Lastpage

207

Abstract

It is expected that, in the coming years, the video data traffic carried by mobile networks will increase drastically. Among the different ways of facing this “mobile data tsunami,” the cooperation of several complementary access technologies offers promising prospects. In the context of such a cooperative approach, this paper proposes the definition of a unified broadcast layer, close to the 3GPP LTE technology, and therefore liable to be easily integrated in mobile devices and infrastructure equipment. The general technical requirements for the design of such a common physical layer are detailed and a practical example based on the 3GPP LTE/E-MBMS and DVB-T2 standards is described. The verification of the proposed approach is performed through simulation results and validation tests carried out on a hardware platform.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; broadband networks; cooperative communication; multimedia communication; telecommunication traffic; 3GPP LTE technology; mobile networks; multimedia services; unified broadcast layer; video data traffic; Digital video broadcasting; Mobile communication; OFDM; Physical layer; Satellites; Standards; 3GPP LTE/E-MBMS; Access network cooperation; DVB-T2; broadband networks; broadcast networks; common physical layer; hardware demonstrator; satellite channels; terrestrial channels;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9316

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBC.2014.2315764

Filename

6807768