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The Role of HAPs in Supporting Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services in Terrestrial-Satellite Integrated Systems

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New-generation telecommunications systems are expected to meet the rising user exigencies of mobility and ubiquitous access to multimedia services. As a consequence, 3GPP consortium has introduced the Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) concept into 3G/beyond-3G networks. Supporting MBMS in next generation hybrid wireless platforms becomes a challenging issue due to high traffic load deriving from both signaling message exchange and data transmission between multicast sources (BM-SC) and end users. Therefore, in this context, key research issues are surely: effective exploitation of the limited radio spectrums available, coordination of users accessing radio resources, as well as provisioning of desired QoS guarantees. Given the high mobility profiles typical of UMTS users, it clearly appears that the cited target performance can only be achieved through networking solutions based on an overlapped terrestrial-HAP-satellite coverage. An inter-working scenario where HAPs operate in synergy with the UMTS terrestrial and satellite segments seems to be the most promising solution to provide mobile users with MBMS services. Our work, dealing with architectural design options, takes into account many metrics relevant to aspects, such as: frequency allocation, costs in terms of resource utilization, signaling traffic load, number and location of customers, reliability, possible retransmission paths, user mobility, and QoS.

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    Giuseppe Araniti, Antonio Iera & Antonella Molinaro

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Giuseppe Araniti received a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 2000. He received the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the same University, in March 2004. He is currently a junior researcher at the D.I.M.E.T., of the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy. His major area of research is the traffic and resource management in third and fourth generation mobile radio systems.

Antonio Iera graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1991 and received a Master Diploma in Information Technology from CEFRIEL, Italy, in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1996.

Since 1997 he has been with the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, first as an Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor. Currently, he is Professor at the same University. His research interests include Personal Communications Systems, Enhanced Wireless and Satellite Systems.

Antonella Molinaro received a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1991, a Master degree in Information Technology from CEFRIEL, Italy, in 1992, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1996. Since 1998 she has been an Assistent Professor first at the University of Messina and then at the University of Calabria. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Her interests include mobile radio systems and inter-working wireless-wired networks.

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Araniti, G., Iera, A. & Molinaro, A. The Role of HAPs in Supporting Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services in Terrestrial-Satellite Integrated Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 32, 195–213 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-0742-3

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