TY - GEN
T1 - Power Counting for optimized capacity in MBMS enabled UTRAN
AU - Panayides, Andreas
AU - Christophorou, Christophoros
AU - Antoniou, Josephine
AU - Pitsillides, Andreas
AU - Vassiliou, Vasos
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - MBMS bearer services can be provided in each cell by either Point-to-Point or Point-to-Multipoint transmission mode but for efficiency a decision has to be made between the two approaches. Initially, the fundamental criterion used to make this decision was the number of MBMS users in a cell (UE Counting). In this paper we extend our previous work, which proposed the power transmitted by the Base Station (BS) as the channel switching criterion (Power Counting). We evaluate our approach and illustrate its capability to dynamically adapt to continuously varying cell conditions by selecting the transmission mode in a more efficient way, preserving in this way the network's resources. At the same time we demonstrate the limitations of the conventional approach, in terms of radio resource efficiency. We show that by having the power used by the BS as the limiting factor we achieve optimized capacity during the transmission of MBMS bearer services in UTRAN.
AB - MBMS bearer services can be provided in each cell by either Point-to-Point or Point-to-Multipoint transmission mode but for efficiency a decision has to be made between the two approaches. Initially, the fundamental criterion used to make this decision was the number of MBMS users in a cell (UE Counting). In this paper we extend our previous work, which proposed the power transmitted by the Base Station (BS) as the channel switching criterion (Power Counting). We evaluate our approach and illustrate its capability to dynamically adapt to continuously varying cell conditions by selecting the transmission mode in a more efficient way, preserving in this way the network's resources. At the same time we demonstrate the limitations of the conventional approach, in terms of radio resource efficiency. We show that by having the power used by the BS as the limiting factor we achieve optimized capacity during the transmission of MBMS bearer services in UTRAN.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=55849132698&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625657
DO - 10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625657
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:55849132698
SN - 9781424427031
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
SP - 368
EP - 373
BT - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2008, ISCC 2008
T2 - 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2008
Y2 - 6 July 2008 through 9 July 2008
ER -