Multicast repair for broadcast flows to the handheld receivers

Muhammad Moiz Anis, Luis Suarez, Johann Leithon, Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody

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    Abstract

    Mobile TV receivers operate with a weaker link budget in the Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) network compared to the fixed rooftop mounted antenna receivers. Nevertheless, the cellular radio interface is an attractive alternative for broadcast services given its reliability. In this work, we use Long Term Evolution (LTE)'s evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) to multicast overhead parity packets among the multicast groups of mobile TV receivers (e.g. smartphones suffering from DVB packet erasures). The proposed multicast scheme recovers erased packets at each smartphone by Systematic RaptorQ Code (SRQC) decoding the directly received DVB transmission along with the overhead packets transmitted via eMBMS multicast. We analyze the load generated in the Cellular Radio Access Network due to this erasure-recovery multicast scheme and compare the gains of such a service over the LTE unicast retransmissions of the missing DVB packets.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2018
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages1-6
    Number of pages6
    Volume2018-April
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538617342
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 8 Jun 2018
    MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
    EventIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference - Barcelona, Spain
    Duration: 15 Apr 201818 Apr 2018

    Publication series

    NameIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
    ISSN (Electronic)1558-2612

    Conference

    ConferenceIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
    Abbreviated titleWCNC
    Country/TerritorySpain
    CityBarcelona
    Period15/04/201818/04/2018

    Keywords

    • Block codes
    • DVB-T2
    • EMBMS
    • Erasure channel
    • Linear combinations
    • LTE
    • Mobile TV
    • Multicast
    • Multicast repair
    • Real-time broadcast

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