Optimal Layered Video IPTV Multicast Streaming over IEEE 802.16e WiMAX Systems

A wireless resource scheduling problem is formulated in the context of IPTV multicasting streaming services over WiMAX channels. The goal is to maximize quality of services, in terms of number of subscribers served, number of IPTV channels carried, and video qualities of individual channels; subject to constraints of finite amount of multicast channel capacities as well as time and spatially varying wireless channel qualities. While a globally optimal solution is NP-hard, we present an efficient heuristic algorithm that exploits the structure of the problem formulation to yield solutions that are very close to the optimal solution.