Due to the increasing demand for pervasive video and broadcast-like applications, multicast
and broadcast communications are expected to assume an important role in upcoming 5G …

The development of 5G system provides a unique opportunity to implement a unified
wireless transmission platform that can simultaneous deliver unicast, multicast and …

Despite of the undisputed benefits of the long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) networks,
offering support for group-oriented services challenges the evolved multimedia broadcast …

Future 5G systems will include a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) transmission mode to achieve
high capacity and high spectrum efficiency for multiple use cases, such as IoT, lifeline …

The evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service (eMBMS) system was developed to
achieve higher spectrum efficiency on video traffic delivery over the long term evolution …

Allocating and managing radio resources to multicast transmissions in orthogonal frequency-
division multiple access (OFDMA) systems is the challenging research issue addressed by …

The design of effective radio resource management policies for group-oriented services in
beyond-4G networks is attracting the interest of the research community. Along this line, this …

In Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS), Multicast/Broadcast Single Frequency
Network (MBSFN) and Single-cell Point-to-multipoint Network (SC-PTM) are two essential …

In this paper, we investigate public safety communications based on LTE-Advanced mobile
networks. This work has a twofold aim,(i) to secure optimal radio resource efficiency using a …

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the emerging 4G wireless technology developed to provide
high quality services in mobile environments. It is foreseen that multimedia services and …