Broadcast and Multicast Based Mobile Video Distribution

Mobile TV Systems/Standards With Mobile TV, users enjoy live and/or ondemand TV using their own mobile devices, such as TV-capable wireless phones and PDAs. The delivery of Mobile TV can be achieved through terrestrial broadcast, satellite broadcast, a combination of terrestrial and satellite broadcasts, and cellular networks. Table 1 lists popular systems/standards for each of one these categories. In contrast with the pure broadcast systems, MBMS and BCMCS are standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and 3GPP2 for providing resource-efficient, Mobile TV using the GSM/WCDMA and CDMA200 cellular networks, respectively. These two standards allow the coexistence of unicast, multicast, and broadcast services [2]. They can be implemented by introducing only minor changes to existing radio and control network protocols in order to reduce the implementation costs in the mobile terminals and network [3].