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Mobile Operators have to meet the growing demand for multimedia services. The Social Networking trend and the Mobile TV are just a few examples of multimedia services that are seriously crowding the operators’ infrastructure. Since the content is to be shared by large groups of users it makes sense to use a point-to-multipoint technology to convey the multimedia information. MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service) and E-MBMS (Evolved MBMS) are the 3GPP systems used to delivery multimedia contents to mobile communities. But these technologies do not support power control which leads to an inefficient data distribution. This paper devises a mechanism that makes possible to reduce the transmitted power enabling an effective multimedia multicast data distribution to mobile groups leading to significant gains on the radio interface on next generation multimedia networks.
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Pinto, F.C., Gomes, Á., Sá, E. (2012). Efficient Multimedia Content Distribution to Mobile Communities. In: Pentikousis, K., Aguiar, R., Sargento, S., Agüero, R. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30422-4_20
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