Generalized Radio Resource Management for Overlapping MBS Zones

• Main Authors: Fang Luo, Yu-Feng Chou, Ray-Guang Cheng, Marek Kalika, Radek Holy, Jana Kalikova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: VSB-Technical University of Ostrava 2013-01-01
• Series: Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Subjects: multicast and broadcast services; multiple mbs zones; resource allocation.
• Online Access: http://advances.utc.sk/index.php/AEEE/article/view/908

Multicast and broadcast service (MBS) is a point-to-multipoint service where data packets are transmitted simultaneously from a single source to multiple destinations. In MBS, some base stations (BSs) may form an MBS zone and transmit identical MBS contents simultaneously using the same modulation and coding scheme. Hence, the network has to coordinate the transmission of BSs such that BSs belonging to multiple MBS zones may utilize non-conflict resources to transmit different MBS contents. This paper extends the work in [10] for accommodating MBS zones with different service presence probabilities and various bandwidth requirements. A continuous allocation algorithm and a non-continuous allocation algorithm are presented to allocate resource units for overlapping MBS zones. Simulations were conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.