Fair end-to-end window-based congestion control
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Multicast over wireless networks
Communications of the ACM
A utility-based power-control scheme in wireless cellular systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Minimum-power multicast routing in static ad hoc wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Fundamentals of wireless communication
Fundamentals of wireless communication
Distributed uplink power control for optimal sir assignment in cellular data networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Resource Allocation for Multicast Services in Multicarrier Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Capacity and optimal resource allocation for fading broadcast channels .I. Ergodic capacity
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Capacity and optimal power allocation for fading broadcast channels with minimum rates
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Challenges in the migration to 4G mobile systems
IEEE Communications Magazine
IPTV over WiMAX: Key Success Factors, Challenges, and Solutions [Advances in Mobile Multimedia]
IEEE Communications Magazine
Opportunistic transmission scheduling with resource-sharing constraints in wireless networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Multicast over wireless mobile ad hoc networks: present and future directions
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Multicast/broadcast is regarded as an efficient technique for wireless cellular networks to transmit a large volume of common data to multiple mobile users simultaneously. To guarantee the quality of service for each mobile user in such single-hop multicasting, the base-station transmitter usually adapts its data rate to the worst channel condition among all users in a multicast group. On one hand, increasing the number of users in a multicast group leads to a more efficient utilization of spectrum bandwidth, as users in the same group can be served together. On the other hand, too many users in a group may lead to unacceptably low data rate at which the base station can transmit. Hence, a natural question that arises is how to efficiently and fairly transmit to a large number of users requiring the same message. This paper endeavors to answer this question by studying the problem of multicasting over multicarriers in wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) cellular systems. Using a unified utility maximization framework, we investigate this problem in two typical scenarios: namely, when users experience roughly equal path losses and when they experience different path losses, respectively. Through theoretical analysis, we obtain optimal multicast schemes satisfying various throughput-fairness requirements in these two cases. In particular, we show that the conventional multicast scheme is optimal in the equal-path-loss case regardless of the utility function adopted. When users experience different path losses, the group multicast scheme, which divides the users almost equally into many multicast groups and multicasts to different groups of users over nonoverlapping subcarriers, is optimal.