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Multicast in third-generation mobile networks : services, mechanisms and performance /

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A hands-on tutorial on multicast in third-generation networks!. In this book, the authors describe how to perform multicast, the one-to-many delivery of data to a group of destinations, in third-generation mobile networks. The authors provide an overview of the services that can be realized with mul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rümmler, Robert
Other Authors: Gluhak, Alexander Daniel, Aghvami, A. Hamid
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, 2009.
Subjects:
Multicasting (Computer networks)
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Fundamentals of IP multicast
  • An overview of third-generation networks
  • Multicast services for third-generation networks
  • Multicast extensions for third-generation networks
  • Protocols and mechanisms for MBMS
  • Protocols and mechanisms for BCMCS
  • Multicast capacity over the CDMA air interface
  • Cost analysis of multicast routing
  • Parity-based reliable multicast
  • Mobile multicast in heterogeneous networks.