Patent ID: 9537668
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of communications, comprising: receiving, by a multicast coordination entity (MCE), a plurality of channel status reports from respective eNodeBs (eNBs), wherein each channel status report includes channel information associated with a respective eNB for one of a plurality of channels in a contention based radio frequency band and information indicating whether a channel of the respective eNB is free from a wireless local area network (WLAN) transmission, wherein the channel of the respective eNB is free from the WLAN transmission if a WLAN signal strength of the channel is less than or equal to a first threshold; selecting the channel for an eNB among the plurality of channels based on the plurality of channel status reports, wherein the selected channel is available to be used for an evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service (eMBMS); and prompting the eNB to provide the eMBMS using the selected channel.