Effective emergency and natural disaster management depend on the efficient mission-
critical voice and data communication between first responders and victims. Land mobile …

Many emerging communication applications transmit packets with small payloads, yet
require rich metadata context for the proper functioning of the various involved protocol …

With recent standardization and deployment of LTE eMBMS, cellular multicast is gaining
traction as a method of efficiently using wireless spectrum to deliver large amounts of …

This paper addresses the design of an adaptive resource allocation policy for the efficient
delivery of multicast services in Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems. The proposed …

This article analyzes the challenges and opportunities that the upcoming definition of future
5G mobile networks brings to the mobile broadband and broadcast industries to form a …

Limited bandwidth resources and higher energy efficiency requirements motivate
incorporating multicast and broadcast transmission into the next-generation cellular network …

Mobile wireless communications are in constant evolution due to the continuously
increasing requirements and expectations of both users and operators. Mass multimedia …

To cope with the growing demand for multimedia services, the 3rd Generation Partnership
Project (3GPP) has introduced the Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) to better …

Current cellular networks support video streaming over unicast or multicast. However, there
exists a tradeoff between utilizing the two: i) unicast leads to higher network load, but lower …

Allocating and managing radio resources to multicast transmissions in orthogonal frequency-
division multiple access (OFDMA) systems is the challenging research issue addressed by …