Providing multicast services over SDN-evolved LTE network: Architecture, procedures and performance analysis

JF Bukhari, JH Park, W Yoon - Computer Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
The recent innovation in cellular technologies like LTE/LTE-Advanced has increased the
demand of high bandwidth services eg mobile Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), on-demand video …

Multicasting in next-generation software-defined heterogeneous wireless networks

J Bukhari, W Yoon - IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multicasting is an efficient mechanism to disseminate popular multimedia content to multiple
interested third generation partnership project (3GPP) cellular users. To further enhance the …

An efficient resource allocation scheme for scalable video multicast in LTE-advanced networks

P Chau, Y Lee, TD Bui, J Shin, J Jeong - proceedings of the 11th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We address the challenge of optimizing the radio resource allocation for scalable video
multicast over LTE-Advanced. The advantage of multicast service is to utilize the available …

Simulated view of SDN based multicasting over D2D enabled heterogeneous cellular networks

JF Bukhari, W Yoon - 2019 16th International Bhurban …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to provide high quality multimedia services to a number of cellular users in a
heterogeneous network, multicasting is a promising mechanism transmitting the content in a …

Multicast resource allocation with opportunistic scheduling in LTE networks

M Algharem, MH Omar, I Aldmour… - Elektronika ir …, 2018 - eejournal.ktu.lt
Abstract Long Term Evolution (LTE) and beyond networks offer high bitrates with low
latencies which makes them the best choice to handle the growing demand on multicast …

Joint delivery of unicast and E-MBMS services in LTE networks

JF Monserrat, J Calabuig… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard enhances Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services
(MBMS) to provide highly efficient transmission of multicast/broadcast services. This paper …

Reliable rate-optimized video multicasting services over LTE/LTE-A

A Tassi, C Khirallah, D Vukobratović… - 2013 IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel advanced multirate design for evolved Multimedia
Multicast/Broadcast Service (eMBMS) in fourth generation (4G) Long-Term Evolution …

Prototype for customized multicast services in software defined networks

S Liao, X Hong, C Wu, B Wang… - 2014 22nd International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multicast, transmitting packets from one source to a group of destinations, is a popular
service in Internet and now in the datacenter network. However, a unified multicast algorithm …

Stealth multicast: A novel catalyst for network-level multicast deployment

A Striegel - … Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of …, 2004 - Springer
While network-level multicast has tremendous potential for increasing the efficiency of group-
oriented applications, the adoption of network-level multicast has been tepid at best. In this …

SDM^ 2 Cast An OpenFlow-Based, Software-Defined Scalable Multimedia Multicast Streaming Framework

J Yang, E Yang, Y Ran, S Chen - IEEE Internet Computing, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a promising network technology
supporting the intelligent and dynamic nature of future networks and applications. Against …