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.

This paper proposes Burst Error Resilient coding (BRC) technology in mobile broadcasting network. The proposed method utilizes Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) to overcome service outage due to burst loss in mobile network. The performance evaluation is performed by comparing PSNR of SVC and the proposed method under MBSFN simulation channel. The simulation result shows PSNR of SVC equal error protection (EEP), unequal error protection (UEP) and proposed BRC using Raptor FEC code.

An orthogonal sequence based MIMO common feedback method for multicast hybrid automatic-repeat-request (H-ARQ) transmission is presented. The proposed method can obtain more diversity gain proportional to the number of transmit antennas than the conventional on-off keying (OOK) based common feedback method. The ACK/NACK detection performance gain of the proposed scheme over the OOK based method is verified by analysis and computer simulation results.

This paper investigates the best cell-common reference signal (RS) structure and transmit diversity scheme for Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) signals considering frequency diversity in a single-frequency network (SFN) in the OFDM based Evolved UTRA downlink. Link-level simulation results show that cyclic delay diversity (CDD) is the most promising transmit diversity scheme for the MBMS signals considering the RS overhead. It is also elucidated that the required average received signal energy per symbol-to-noise power spectrum density ratio (Es/N0) using CDD is reduced by approximately 0.5 dB even though the MBMS signal obtains a sufficient frequency diversity gain in SFN operation. Furthermore, we clarify the achievable data rate for the MBMS signal at the cell edge of the centered MBMS cell that satisfies the required block error rate (BLER) using two-antenna transmit CDD and diversity reception by system-level simulation. Then, the simulation results show that the offered data rates with the required BLER of less than 10-2 at 95% coverage are 0.211 (0.17), 0.243 (0.196), 1.168 (1.084), and 2.754 (2.754) bps/Hz with the number of cells providing MBMS, NMBMS = 1, 3, 21, and 57, respectively, employing transmit CDD with two antennas (single-antenna transmission) for ISD = 500 m.