01802nas a2200181   4500008004100000245008400041210006900125260002900194300001300223520114300236653000901379653001801388653000901406100002101415700002201436700002201458856014001480       2008                        eng d00aA Novel Power Counting Mechanism for Enhanced MBMS Performance in UMTS Networks0 aNovel Power Counting Mechanism for Enhanced MBMS Performance in   c30 September - 2 October  a 57 - 683 aOne of the key objectives of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is the realization of enhanced end-user experience through the provision of rich multimedia services, ensuring in parallel an economical delivery cost for service providers. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS) framework of UMTS epitomizes the increasing popularity of such applications by efficiently delivering multimedia traffic to a large number of users and optimizing the radio interface of UMTS networks. For exploiting resource efficiency, MBMS specifications consider the Counting Mechanism which decides whether it is more economic to deliver MBMS multicast traffic over point-to-point (PTP) or point-to-multipoint (PTM) bearers. However, the necessity to further improve MBMS resource efficiency and integrate new technologies such as High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) stresses the need for an advanced Counting Mechanism. To this direction, in this paper we propose a novel Power Counting Mechanism which performs optimal power resource utilization and incorporates the HSDPA broadband extension of UMTS for enhanced performance.10aMBMS10aPower Control10aUMTS1 aBouras, Christos1 aAlexiou, Antonios1 aRekkas, Evangelos  uhttp://telematics.upatras.gr/telematics/publications/novel-power-counting-mechanism-enhanced-mbms-performance-umts-networks?language=el