Optimizing Subgroups Formation for E-MBMS Transmissions in LTE Networks

M Algharem (Universiti Utara Malaysia)
M H Omar (Universiti Utara Malaysia)
D Stiawan (University Sriwijaya)
R Budiarto (Albaha University)

Proceeding of the Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Informatics
Vol 3: EECSI 2016

Long Term Evolution (LTE) network provides a high throughput with low latency which make it suitable for multicast and broadcast services. In Conventional Multicast Scheme (CMS), data is transmitted according to the user with worst channel condition which results in wasting network resources. To overcome the drawback of CMS, a new subgrouping mechanism is proposed to split the multicast group into several subgroups based on users channel quality. The performance of the proposed mechanism has been evaluated using LTE simulator. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism increase the multicast performance compared to CMS in term of goodput and spectrum efficiency, while maintain fairness index of users in an acceptable level.