A multicast mechanism for mobile multimedia messaging service
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Ai-Chun Pang; Yuan-Kai Chen
- Source
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on. 53(6):1891-1902 Nov, 2004
- Subject
- Transportation
Aerospace
Message service
Ground penetrating radar
3G mobile communication
Network servers
Web server
Multimedia systems
Wireless application protocol
Digital multimedia broadcasting
Multimedia communication
Packet radio networks
General packet radio service (GPRS)
mobility management
multicast
multimedia messaging service (MMS)
universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS)
- Language
- ISSN
- 0018-9545
1939-9359
Based on the cell broadcast service architecture, this paper proposes an efficient multicast mechanism for the universal mobile telecommunications system to support multimedia messaging service (MMS). We define a new interface between the serving GPRS support node and the cell broadcast center to track the current locations of the multicast members. Then we describe the location tracking procedures (including attach, detach, and location update) of the multicast members and the multicast message delivery procedure. We use an analytic model to investigate the performance of our approach. This paper indicates that our MMS multicast mechanism outperforms the previous proposed approaches.