01688nas a2200193   4500008004100000245004800041210004800089260002200137300001500159520109800174653001801272653000801290653001001298100002101308700002201329700002401351700002401375856009501399       2010                        eng d00aCommunication Cost Analysis of MBSFN in LTE0 aCommunication Cost Analysis of MBSFN in LTE  cSeptember 26 - 30  a 1366-13713 aLong Term Evolution (LTE) is the latest step towards
the 4th generation (4G) of radio technologies designed to increase
the capacity and speed of mobile communications. To support
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS), LTE offers
the possibility to transmit Multimedia Broadcast multicast
service over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN), where a
time-synchronized common waveform is transmitted from
multiple cells for a given duration. In this paper we analytically
present the MBSFN delivery method and evaluate its
performance. The critical parameters of primary interest for the
evaluation of the scheme are the packet delivery cost and its
scalability. To this direction, a telecommunication cost analysis of
the MBMS service is presented based on the transmission cost
over the air interface, as well as the costs of all interfaces and
nodes of the MBSFN architecture. Since the performance of the
MBSFN scheme mainly depends on the configuration of the LTE
network that is under investigation, we consider different
network topologies, MBSFN deployments and user distributions.10aCost analysis10aLTE10aMBSFN1 aBouras, Christos1 aAlexiou, Antonios1 aKokkinos, Vasileios1 aTsichritzis, George  uhttp://telematics.upatras.gr/telematics/publications/communication-cost-analysis-mbsfn-lte