Patent ID: 9699764
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for carrying out a multimedia broadcast multicast service, comprising: acquiring, by a home network side entity, multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) configuration information of a macro cell, the MBMS configuration information of the macro cell comprising first MBMS configuration information, the first MBMS configuration information comprising position information of a multimedia broadcast multicast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe in the macro cell; and configuring a subframe of a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell at a position which is the same as that of the MBSFN subframe of the macro cell into a first almost blank subframe (ABS) or into a first ABS and MBSFN subframe, according to the acquired first MBMS configuration information, so that user equipment (UE) receives multimedia broadcast multicast service of the macro cell at the configured first ABS or the configured first ABS and the MBSFN subframe; wherein the MBMS configuration information further comprises second MBMS configuration information, the second MBMS configuration information comprising one or more pieces of the following information: MBMS control channel configuration change indication information, MBMS control channel configuration information, MBSFN region configuration information transmitted in an MBMS control channel containing relevant information of a physical broadcast multicast channel for MBMS data receiving, scheduling information of relevant system information, and information about paging; wherein the home network side entity is a network management system (OAM) of a home base station or a home base station.