Multicast Services for Third‐Generation Networks

Chapter 4 provides an overview of mobile services that can be realized with multicast in third‐generation networks. Several services for multicast are described in the form of use cases. Based on these use cases, several functional and non‐functional high‐level requirements that the system must provide in order to fully support the described services are derived. Finally, several factors that have an influence on whether multicast services will be accepted by users and succeed in the marketplace are discussed