On the Applicability of pgmcc to UMTS Multicast

TitleOn the Applicability of pgmcc to UMTS Multicast
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsBouras, C, Alexiou, A, Papazois, A
Conference Name2007 International Conference on Late Advances in Networks (ICLAN-2007), Paris, France
Date Published5 - 7 December
KeywordsCongestion Control, UMTS
Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the applicability of the Pragmatic General Multicast Congestion Control (pgmcc) scheme to the multicast data delivery over Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks. We show that the pgmcc scheme cannot support the degradation of the radio channels in the UMTS Terrestrial Radio-Access Network (UTRAN). Our major contribution is that the legacy scheme is modified in order to cope with the packet losses caused by either the temporary or the permanent degradation of the radio channel. The proposed scheme introduces minor modifications in the UMTS nodes and respects the limited computing power of the mobile equipment. Finally, we simulate our approach and we evaluate it under various conditions. The simulation results are presented along with their analysis