SC-PTM or MBSFN for Mission Critical Communications?

Alaa Daher, Marceau Coupechoux, Philippe Godlewski, Pierre Ngouat, Pierre Minot

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Abstract

Long Term Evolution (LTE), designed by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to increase the capacity of radio mobile communications, has been endorsed by multiple public protection and disaster relief organizations as a next generation technology for Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) networks, which convey business and mission critical communications. One of the main services of PMR is the group communication that can be seen as a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS). LTE offers functionality to transmit this type of flows either by MBMS over Single Frequency Network (MBSFN), or Single-Cell Point-To- Multipoint (SC-PTM). In this paper, we compare MBSFN, SC-PTM and unicast transmissions in terms of radio quality, system spectral efficiency and cell coverage. Our main conclusion is that SC-PTM together with Transmission Time Interval (TTI) bundling transmissions offers a flexible solution to trade coverage off for capacity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509059324
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Nov 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event85th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2017 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 4 Jun 20177 Jun 2017

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Volume2017-June
ISSN (Print)1550-2252

Conference

Conference85th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2017
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period4/06/177/06/17

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