Satellite Support for Enhanced Mobile Broadband Content Delivery in 5G

Ning Wang, Nivedita Nouwell, Chang Ge, Barry Evans, Yogaratnam Rahulan, Mael Boutin, Jeremy Desmauts, Konstantinos Liolis, Christos Politis, Simon Votts, Georgia Poziopoulou
2018 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)  
Satellite communication has recently been included as one of the enabling technologies for 5G backhauling, in particular for the delivery of bandwidth-demanding enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) application data in 5G. In this paper we introduce a 5G-oriented network architecture empowered by satellite communications for supporting emerging mobile video delivery, which is investigated in the EU 5GPPP Phase 2 SAT5G Project. Two complementary use cases are introduced, including (1) the use of
more » ... lite links to support offline multicasting and caching of popular video content at 5G mobile edge, and (2) real-time prefetching of DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) video segments by 5G mobile edge through satellite links. In both cases, the objective is to localize content objects close to consumers in order to achieve assured Quality of Experiences (QoE) in 5G content applications. In the latter case, in order to circumvent the large end-to-end propagation delay of satellite links, testbed based experiments have been carried out to identify specific prefetching policies to be enforced by the Multiaccess computing server (MEC) for minimizing user perceived disruption during content consumption sessions.
doi:10.1109/bmsb.2018.8436902 dblp:conf/bmsb/WangN0ERBDLPVP18 fatcat:k5m23gbdezcoxev7sejxyso2qq