Friday, 28 October 2016

Annals of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast services

The objective of this month's article is for our audience who are interested in the Transmission Reliability of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast services and that is why we put together this article from today's workshop proceedings.  28th October 2016   12.00Hrs G.M.T


The proliferation of on-line media applications and digital entertainment have contributed to the exponential growth in Multicast-aware technology. This technology enabler has facilitated the delivery of best effort Quality of service (QoS) to a group of consumers on the global network. In recent times, the Internet Content consumers’ Quality of  Experience (QoE) grown from 40% in 2014 to 80% in 2016 based on Multimedia Broadcast Multicast service delivery. 
          A little background on Multimedia Broadcast Multicast services reveals that Multimedia Broadcast Multicast services is a point- to-multi-point interface specification for existing and  upcoming 3GPP cellular networks which is designed to provide efficient delivery of broadcast and multicast services both within the cell as well as within the core network. The broadcast transmission across multiple cells. It defines transmission by a single frequency network configurations. Target applications includes mobile TV and radio broadcasting as well as file delivery and emergency alert.
Deployment: MBMS Mobile broadcast technology has never been deployed by any operator in the world as suppose to other technology such as DBBH, ATSCMHIH DBTMM. Various mobile technology in the UK had conducted trials for MBMS based mobile TV. There is no indication that this trials resulted in any commercial deployment. In 2013, Verizon was the first operator to anounce the Bolunchi MBMS services.In 2014, over its LTE Networks. eMBMS is the LTE version of MBMS. AT&T subsequently announce plans to use the 700MH lower D block licences it acquired in 2011 from qualcomm for an LTE broadcast service.

In 2014, several major operators are lining to deploy and test the technology. In July 2014, Nokia networks demonstrated the use of LTE broadcast to replace broadcast traditional digital TV. This use-case remains controversial as some study are doubting the capability of LTE broadcast to address this use-case efficiently in its current version. In August 2014, ericsson and pokontel successfully tested the LTE broadcast by streaming the opening game of 2014, world volleyball championship to hundreds of guest in euro on majesty trademark national stadium in Poland on August 30th. 2015. Competing technologies of MBMS include DBTHDMB DBBHBSM and media flow.
However, due to spectrum scarcity and cost of building new broadcast infrastructure, some of these technologies may not be viable. Media flow has been deployed in the U.S by Verizon in relationship with Media flow U.S.A in corporated. However, the service was shut down in early 2011. DMBMDH trials has been on-going for more than a year now.  During the football 2006 championship in Germany. Always proprietary CMBS is a precursor to the multimedia Broadcast Multicast service. It was specified in 3gpps 6 using the existing UMTS infrastructure and real-time streaming protocol.

Technical Description: The MBMS feature is split into the MBMS bearer service and the MBMS user service and it been defined to be offered over both UTRA and LTE. MBMS bearer services include the multicast and broadcast mode but only the broadcast mode is available over LTE.  MBMS bearer service uses IP multicast to addresses for the IP flows.  The advantage of the MBMS bearer service compared to unicast bearer services is that the transmission resources in the core and radio network are shared. 1MBMS packet flows is replicated by GGSN, SGSN and RSC’s. MBMS may use an advanced counting scheme to decide whether or not Zero, one or more dedicated radio channel leads to a more efficient systems usage than one common radio channel. UTRAN MBMS offers up to 256kbits per MBMS bearer service between 800kbits and 1.7 with scell band. The actual cell band depend on the UE capability. MBMS offers between 32kbits and128 kbits. Up to 4 GSM time slot may be used for one MBMS bearer services downlink direction. The actual data rate of traffic flow depends on network dimensioning.

The MBMS user services basically the MBMS services Offers adopt the streaming and download delivery method. The streaming delivery method can be used for continuous transmissions like the mobile TV services. The download method is intended for euroE download euro services

To increase the transmission reliability, an application RFC code may be used. MBMS has been standardized in various methods of 3GGP and the first place standard on UMTS release 6. Release 6 was functionally frozen by the third quarter of 2004 and practical network implementations may be expected by the also end of 2007 at the best functional mobile terminal services. EMBMS has been standardized by various groups’ 3GGPs part of LTE release 9. The LTE version of MBMS referred to as multicast broadcast singular frequency network support based on FDM wave form and similar to other broadcast solutions such as DBBH. 3GGP technical specification MBMS bearer service. 

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