AL-FEC for streaming services in LTE E-MBMS

3rd Generation Partnership Project specified Application Layer - Forward Error Correction (AL-FEC) to be used for Enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (E-MBMS) in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. Specifically, Raptor coding is applied to both streaming and file delivery services. This...

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Published in:EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking 2013-03, Vol.2013 (1), p.73-73, Article 73
Main Authors: Calabuig, Jorge, Monserrat, Jose F, Gozálvez, David, Gómez-Barquero, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communications Engineering
Engineering
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Networks
Signal,Image and Speech Processing
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Summary:3rd Generation Partnership Project specified Application Layer - Forward Error Correction (AL-FEC) to be used for Enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (E-MBMS) in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. Specifically, Raptor coding is applied to both streaming and file delivery services. This article focuses on streaming services and investigates the optimum configuration of the AL-FEC mechanism depending on the signal-to-interference plus noise power ratio conditions. These configurations are compared with a scenario without an application layer protection to obtain the potential gain that can be achieved by means of AL-FEC. This article also studies the multiplexing of services within the AL-FEC time interleaving. These analyses were performed using a proprietary system level simulator and assuming both pedestrian and vehicular users. Different quality criterions were used to ensure the completeness of the study. Results show the significant benefit of using AL-FEC in E-MBMS in terms of coverage and service quality.
ISSN:1687-1499
1687-1499
DOI:10.1186/1687-1499-2013-73