Energy Efficient Multimedia Delivery Services over LTE/LTE-A

Chadi KHIRALLAH; Dragan RASTOVAC; Dejan VUKOBRATOVIC; John THOMPSON

doi:10.1587/transcom.E97.B.1504

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Energy Efficient Multimedia Delivery Services over LTE/LTE-A

Chadi KHIRALLAH, Dragan RASTOVAC, Dejan VUKOBRATOVIC, John THOMPSON

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Mobile video services are becoming a dominant traffic category in emerging fourth generation (4G) cellular networks such as the 3GPP Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A). In particular, mobile video unicasting services based on 3GPP Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) and multicasting/broadcasting services based on 3GPP evolved Multimedia Multicast/Broadcast Service (eMBMS) will require considerable resources for high-quality service delivery with high coverage probability. Faced with the challenge of energy efficient multimedia service provisioning over LTE/LTE-A, in this paper, we present simple analytical tools for evaluation of average service data rates, bandwidth and energy-consumption requirements applicable for different multimedia delivery services and LTE/LTE-A radio access network (RAN) configurations. Moreover, we introduce and evaluate novel energy and bandwidth performance measures defined per unit of service. As a result, we are able to compare the efficiency of different multimedia service delivery configurations over LTE/LTE-A. In particular, in this paper, as a running example we focus on eMBMS and compare the Energy of Service (EoS) of the two macro-cellular LTE/LTE-A configurations recently proposed in 3GPP: i) a single frequency network eMBMS (SFN-eMBMS), and ii) a single-cell eMBMS (SC-eMBMS). Furthermore, we extend this analysis to eMBMS provisioning over Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) environment. However, the methodology presented is general and targets light-weight system design and comparison of bandwidth/energy costs of different LTE/LTE-A multimedia service delivery configurations.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E97-B No.8 pp.1504-1513

Publication Date: 2014/08/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1345

DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E97.B.1504

Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on EU's FP7 ICT R&D Project Activities on Future Broadband Access Technologies in Conjunction with Main Topics of 2013 IEICE ICT Forum)

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Chadi KHIRALLAH
  The University of Edinburgh
Dragan RASTOVAC
  University of Novi Sad
Dejan VUKOBRATOVIC
  University of Novi Sad
John THOMPSON
  The University of Edinburgh

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eMBMS, energy efficiency, video multicast, LTE/LTE-A

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Chadi KHIRALLAH, Dragan RASTOVAC, Dejan VUKOBRATOVIC, John THOMPSON, "Energy Efficient Multimedia Delivery Services over LTE/LTE-A" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E97-B, no. 8, pp. 1504-1513, August 2014, doi: 10.1587/transcom.E97.B.1504.
Abstract: Mobile video services are becoming a dominant traffic category in emerging fourth generation (4G) cellular networks such as the 3GPP Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A). In particular, mobile video unicasting services based on 3GPP Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) and multicasting/broadcasting services based on 3GPP evolved Multimedia Multicast/Broadcast Service (eMBMS) will require considerable resources for high-quality service delivery with high coverage probability. Faced with the challenge of energy efficient multimedia service provisioning over LTE/LTE-A, in this paper, we present simple analytical tools for evaluation of average service data rates, bandwidth and energy-consumption requirements applicable for different multimedia delivery services and LTE/LTE-A radio access network (RAN) configurations. Moreover, we introduce and evaluate novel energy and bandwidth performance measures defined per unit of service. As a result, we are able to compare the efficiency of different multimedia service delivery configurations over LTE/LTE-A. In particular, in this paper, as a running example we focus on eMBMS and compare the Energy of Service (EoS) of the two macro-cellular LTE/LTE-A configurations recently proposed in 3GPP: i) a single frequency network eMBMS (SFN-eMBMS), and ii) a single-cell eMBMS (SC-eMBMS). Furthermore, we extend this analysis to eMBMS provisioning over Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) environment. However, the methodology presented is general and targets light-weight system design and comparison of bandwidth/energy costs of different LTE/LTE-A multimedia service delivery configurations.
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