%0 Conference Paper %B IFIP Wireless Days 2010, Venice, Italy %D 2010 %T Enhancing FEC Application in LTE Cellular Networks %A Christos Bouras %A Antonios Alexiou %A Andreas Papazois %A Vasileios Kokkinos %A Georgia Tseliou %K FEC %K LTE %K MBMS %K MBSFN %X 3rd Generation Partnership Project?s (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) is focused on enhancing the Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA). Evolved-Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (e-MBMS) uses Multimedia Broadcast over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) operation in order to improve its performance. In MBSFN operation, data are transmitted simultaneously over the air from multiple tightly time-synchronized cells. Raptor codes have been standardized as the main application layer Forward Error Correction (FEC) method for e-MBMS due to the advanced error protection they offer and their overall performance. In this study, we investigate the application of FEC in MBSFN-enabled LTE cellular networks and we propose a new scheme that takes into account the properties of MBSFN in order to provide a more efficient operation of FEC during e-MBMS transmissions. The proposed scheme is compared with other file recovery methods and is evaluated against various network parameters in a realistic simulation environment. %B IFIP Wireless Days 2010, Venice, Italy %8 October 20 - 22 %G eng