Predictive broadcasting in mobile multimedia communications

Unicast demand on wireless networks are being dominated by users who watch multi-media content on their own time. Broadcast is not a suitable solution for today´s wireless users. Broadcast services have failed to enter the mainstream of mobile business. In this paper we propose a novel way of using Enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) in LTE to deliver content predictively to the user device for later consumption. eMBMS is particularly relevant as it is the first cellular systems that allows in-band broadcast capability successfully. We show through simulation that this method has the potential of doubling the capacity of a wireless service provider thereby allowing more users in a network without additional investment.