A rich new area of research in mobile communications is terminal reconfiguration. An efficient way of performing multi-user over-the-air downloads would facilitate mass-upgrade reconfigurations by reducing the resulting download traffic in the system, thus ensuring better quality of service for all users and reducing download times. We are simulating efficient traffic management schemes for multi-user downloads over the fixed part of a 3G (all-IP) network. The paper at hand introduces two of these schemes, thereafter concentrates on one in particular: switching between one-to-many download methods n-times unicast, multicast and broadcast. The methodology for simulations of this scheme is given, and results are presented showing relative performances and potential benefits in the switching policy.
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