MACRO DIVERSITY COMBINING SCHEMES FOR MULTICAST TRANSMISSION IN HIGH-SPEED CELLULAR NETWORKS

Neila El Heni, Xavier Lagrange

2008

Abstract

In this paper, we study the transmission of data destined for several users on the radio interface using the multicast mode, an interesting alternative of the conventional unicast mode. In the multicast mode, a packet is sent simultaneously to several terminals in the same cell. We consider different techniques of macro diversity, namely Selective Combining (SC) and Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC). We develop an analytical model that allows the computation of the mean bitrate for both multicast and unicast schemes. We use a scheduler that allocates bandwidth to mobiles according to their instantaneous channel quality. In this context, we propose an efficient user clustering considering their average radio channel quality. The study shows that macro diversity improves the transmission performance especially for pure multicast.

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El Heni N. and Lagrange X. (2008). MACRO DIVERSITY COMBINING SCHEMES FOR MULTICAST TRANSMISSION IN HIGH-SPEED CELLULAR NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-62-3, pages 121-126. DOI: 10.5220/0002025801210126


in Bibtex Style

@conference{winsys08,
author={Neila El Heni and Xavier Lagrange},
title={MACRO DIVERSITY COMBINING SCHEMES FOR MULTICAST TRANSMISSION IN HIGH-SPEED CELLULAR NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={121-126},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002025801210126},
isbn={978-989-8111-62-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2008)
TI - MACRO DIVERSITY COMBINING SCHEMES FOR MULTICAST TRANSMISSION IN HIGH-SPEED CELLULAR NETWORKS
SN - 978-989-8111-62-3
AU - El Heni N.
AU - Lagrange X.
PY - 2008
SP - 121
EP - 126
DO - 10.5220/0002025801210126