IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Regular Section
Performance of Superposition Coded Broadcast/Unicast Service Overlay System
Seokhyun YOONDonghee KIM
Author information
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESS

2008 Volume E91.B Issue 9 Pages 2933-2939

Details
Abstract

The system level performance of a superposition coded broadcast/unicast service overlay system is considered. Cellular network for unicast service only is considered as interference limited system, where increasing the transmission power does not help improve the network throughput especially when the frequency reuse factor is close to 1. In such cases, the amount of power that does not contribute to improving the throughput can be considered as “unused.” This situation motivates us to use the unused power for broadcast services, which can be efficiently provided in OFDM based single frequency networks as in digital multimedia broadcast systems. In this paper, we investigate the performance of such a broadcast/unicast overlay system in which a single frequency broadcast service is superimposed over a unicast cellular service. Alternative service multiplexing using FDM/TDM is also considered for comparison.

Content from these authors
© 2008 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Previous article Next article
feedback
Top