Abstract: A system for offloading traffic from a cellular network to a broadcast network is provided. The offloading mechanism caters to both unicast and broadcast traffic. The system includes a converged cellular core network, World Wide Web, a CDN, a Broadcast Offload Packet Core (BO-PC), a cellular base station, a Broadcast Radio Head, and a converged UE. The converged cellular core network includes an enhanced packet core, a policy rules engine and a packet inspection and steering unit. The BO-PC includes a Broadcast Proxy, a subscriber database, a Broadcast Offload Service Center, a Broadcast Offload Gateway and an analytics engine. For offloading the unicast traffic, the packet inspection and steering unit identifies sessions that are offloaded for supporting offload of the traffic from the converged cellular core network to the broadcast network.

Abstract: A system for offloading traffic from a cellular network to a broadcast network is provided. The offloading mechanism caters to both unicast and broadcast traffic. The system includes a converged cellular core network, World Wide Web, a CDN, a Broadcast Offload Packet Core (BO-PC), a cellular base station, a Broadcast Radio Head, and a converged UE. The converged cellular core network includes an enhanced packet core, a policy rules engine and a packet inspection and steering unit. The BO-PC includes a Broadcast Proxy, a subscriber database, a Broadcast Offload Service Center, a Broadcast Offload Gateway and an analytics engine. For offloading the unicast traffic, the packet inspection and steering unit identifies sessions that are offloaded for supporting offload of the traffic from the converged cellular core network to the broadcast network.

Abstract: A system and method for switching one or more User Equipment (UEs) 116A-N from a unicast mode to a broadcast or multicast mode to transmit a streaming media content to the UEs 116A-N is provided. The system includes, an Over-the-top (OTT) platform 104, a CDN 112, the UEs 116A-N, a cellular core network 202, one-to-many offload core 204, an analytics engine 206, a database 208, one-to-many transmitter 210, a real time switching module 212, a Cellular base station 214 and a user specified rules module 222. The analytics engine 206 continuously analyzes real-time and historical data stored in the database 208 to identify the UEs 116A-N that receive a streaming media content through the unicast mode and the streaming media content to be offloaded. An offload is a process by which certain portions of the streaming media content is shifted from the unicast mode to the broadcast or multicast mode.

Abstract: A system and method for switching one or more User Equipment (UEs) 116A-N from a unicast mode to a broadcast or multicast mode to transmit a streaming media content to the UEs 116A-N is provided. The system includes, an Over-the-top (OTT) platform 104, a CDN 112, the UEs 116A-N, a cellular core network 202, one-to-many offload core 204, an analytics engine 206, a database 208, one-to-many transmitter 210, a real time switching module 212, a Cellular base station 214 and a user specified rules module 222. The analytics engine 206 continuously analyzes real-time and historical data stored in the database 208 to identify the UEs 116A-N that receive a streaming media content through the unicast mode and the streaming media content to be offloaded. An offload is a process by which certain portions of the streaming media content is shifted from the unicast mode to the broadcast or multicast mode.