WO2003003766A1 - Method and apparatus for determining a multicast group in a composite radio environment - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to the field of composite radio environments, i.e. radio environments that include both multicast broadcast capability and one or more cellular radio communication networks .
- DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting
- DVD-T Digital Video Broadcasting
- GSM Global System for Mobile communications
- GPRS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System - UMTS
- IMT-2000 system e.g. Universal Mobile Telecommunication System - UMTS
- BlueTooth and Hiperlanl/2 will enable a plethora of innovative, interactive multimedia services and applications.
- Service providers will have the opportunity to augment individual services by providing innovative combinations of these digital networks.
- a known means for reducing overall use of communication resource when a common content is being delivered is to use multicast broadcast, in which a common channel is used to transmit common content to a plurality of communication units.
- multicast broadcast in which a common channel is used to transmit common content to a plurality of communication units.
- this is only performed in a predetermined fashion for predetermined content/services.
- this does not conventionally take into account characteristics introduced by composite radio environments, i.e. radio environments that include both multicast broadcast capability and one or more cellular radio communication networks.
- the present invention provides a method of determining a multicast group from a plurality of mobile communication units in a composite radio environment, as claimed in claim 1.
- the present invention provides a storage medium storing processor-implementable instructions, as claimed in claim 17.
- the present invention provides apparatus, as claimed in claim 18.
- the present invention allocates a plurality of mobile communication units to receive a common content by a multicast broadcast, when this content would otherwise be delivered using individual channels.
- the allocated communication units are determined from plural communication units which may previously be operating on different cellular communication networks.
- the present inventors have envisaged that multiple combinations of delivery means will first be introduced to mobile and portable terminals because these services will provide significant added value to what can presently be provided to mobile and portable terminals for them to be commercially viable.
- Normal narrow-casting and personalized A/V and data services Normal narrow-cast phone services can be enhanced by combining them with Internet data. This may be useful when collaborative searches are required on the Internet .
- Multimedia based city guides could be made available on mobile terminals.
- the city guides could be in the form of Internet maps combined with panoramic screen shots or virtual reality models.
- FIG. 1 schematically illustrates part of an overall communication system, containing a plurality of communication networks, in which an embodiment of the invention may be implemented;
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart representing the process steps employed in an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 shows the system of FIG. 1 at a different stage during implementation of an embodiment.
- FIG. 1 shows part of an overall communication system 100 to which a first embodiment of the present invention may be applied.
- mobile communication units in this example mobile telephones, are shown by way of example, namely first communication unit 1,' second communication unit 2, third communication unit 3, and fourth communication unit 4.
- the first and third communication units 1,3 are currently receiving communication service from a first communication network 11.
- the second and fourth communication units 2,4 are currently receiving communication service from a second communication network 12.
- each of these networks is a UMTS network.
- the system 100 also comprises a radio broadcast network 13, and FIG. 1 shows a predefined geographical area 15 specified by the radio broadcast network 13, where it is intended to perform multicast broadcast, as will be explained in more detail below.
- each of the cellular communication networks 11, 12 and the radio broadcast network 13 are made up of separate hardware such as switching centres, base stations, radio transceivers and so on. Also, they are separate in a commercial sense. However, in other embodiments, the different networks could share some or all of their hardware, but constitute different networks by virtue of being used by different commercial entities on a time division basis or with respect to different radio channels and so on. The networks may themselves be hiring such airtime or channels from different commercial entities using the relevant hardware.
- Each of the cellular communication networks 11, 12 and the radio broadcast network 13 are coupled to a backbone entity, in this example an Ipv ⁇ backbone, by communication links 22, 24 and 26 respectively.
- a first controller unit in this example a composite radio server (CRS) 30, is coupled to the backbone 20 by a communication link 32.
- a second controller unit in this example a service provider server (SPS) 40, is coupled via the Internet 42 to the backbone 20, by means of communication links 44 and 46.
- SPS service provider server
- each of the first to fourth communication units 1,2,3,4 are receiving content from SPS 40 having logged on to the Internet.
- the first, second and fourth mobile communication units 1,2,4 are receiving a common content (e.g. a particular sports commentary) indicated by the text "CI" in FIG. 1, whereas the third mobile communication unit 3 is receiving a different content (e.g. downloading a particular item of music) indicated by "C2" in FIG. 1.
- the CRS 30 determines, for each of the communication units, availability to the communication units of different radio networks at the particular geographic location of the communication unit. This is provided as a matrix, and is formed by acquiring location information on a particular user from an adequate entity within the network and then using a look-up table to determine the radio networks available in the area.
- the CRS 40 determines, for each of the mobile communication units, location information and communication networks available to the mobile communication unit. Further optional data may be included, such as signal quality, estimated duration of the coverage, etc.
- the CRS 30 may use a Common Control Channel (CCC) on each of the networks to perform specific measurements for the mobile communication units 1,2,3,4 in order to form the composite system matrix.
- CCC Common Control Channel
- CRS 30 reports the composite system matrix (i.e. radio network availability, signal quality, estimated duration of the coverage, etc.) to the SPS 40.
- composite system matrix i.e. radio network availability, signal quality, estimated duration of the coverage, etc.
- the SPS 40 determines the degree of content commonality between different users on the server, i.e. in this example determines that mobile communication units 1,2,4 are downloading the same content CI, whereas the third mobile communication unit 3 is downloading other content C2.
- the SPS 40 determines, for each of the mobile communication units 1,2,3,4 what content the respective mobile communication unit is currently receiving on a respective individual channel via a current communication network the mobile communication unit is currently receiving service from.
- the SPS 40 uses this information together with the composite system matrix to determine which users can be served by multicast.
- the SPS 40 compares the information of the matrix, i.e. the information gained from step s2, with the content information gained from step s4.
- the SPS 40 allocates, dependent upon the result of the comparing step s6, mobile communication units for receiving a common content via a multicast broadcast.
- the multicast broadcast is intended for broadcast on a common channel in the predefined geographical area 15.
- mobile communication units 1,2,4 are allocated for the multicast, as they share the common content CI .
- the process is extended to include actual switching of the units to multicast.
- the allocated units will be switched to multicast when at least two such units are able to receive the multicast, in the predefined area 15 (in other embodiments, other minimum numbers may be set, or more complicated criteria employed for deciding if or when to switch to the multicast) .
- switching to the multicast is not yet performed, because, of the allocated communication units, only the first mobile communication unit 1 is currently in the predefined region 15.
- FIG. 3 illustrates the overall situation once the second mobile communication unit 2 has reached the predefined geographical area 15.
- the SPS 40 uses a common control channel to inform them of the requested switch/handover. More particularly, the SPS communicates details of the allocated group of units to the CRS 30 which then establishes a paging channel on the broadcast component (e.g. DVB, DAB) for that group.
- Multicast Group Paging Channel MGPG is used to send all control information relevant to the given multicast group (change of coding information, parameters change for multimedia content, request for particular signal strength and quality of service measurements, etc.) .
- a relatively simple criterion is used to switch to multicast broadcast.
- more complicated criteria for switching, and indeed for deciding whether to include a particular candidate mobile communication unit in the broadcast group may be employed. These criteria may be determined such that the amount of data transmitted by multicast rather than by individual channels is substantially maximised.
- the CRS 30 continues to monitor appropriate parameters (e.g. location, content, quality of service) .
- appropriate parameters e.g. location, content, quality of service
- this is implemented, for example using the Multicast Group paging Channel. It may alternatively be determined that one or more of the mobile communication units should be handed over to a different multicast group or to a different cellular network.
- each of the CRS 30 and SPS 40 in the above embodiment may, in other embodiments, be carried out by either server. Indeed, in other embodiments, other system components may perform some or all of the above steps.
- the cellular networks 11 and 12 are both UMTS networks.
- the invention is applicable to other networks, for example GPRS and GSM networks .
- the above embodiments may be implemented by configuring or adapting any suitable apparatus, for example a computer or other processing apparatus, forming part or all of the above mentioned servers or other system components.
- the processes described may be implemented by a processor implementing processor- implementable instructions and/or stored on a suitable storage medium, such as computer memory, hard disk, floppy disk, ROM, PROM etc.
- the processor may be a computer, a network of computers, or one or more dedicated processors.
- the present invention finds particular application in composite radio environments including cellular radio communication systems comprising for example UMTS networks.
- inventive concepts contained herein are equally applicable to other cellular and other two-way communication networks. Whilst the specific, and preferred, implementations of the present invention are described above, it is clear that variations and ', modifications of such inventive concepts could be readily applied by one skilled in the art.
- composite radio server may be added to the periphery of the network and enable a service provider to have an influence over the decision as to which delivery means will be used to meet quality of service expectations of a given user
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